In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.
Curt SachsThe dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.
Curt Sachs