If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.

Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

Whatever the nature of dance, it needs no onlooker, not even a single witness.

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.