A Glimpse into the Purpose of the Birthdance
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"If the world leaders took the sanctity of life and our future more seriously,
then we would sign all economic, environmental, and peace treaties over the bellies of pregnant women."
~ Delila Flynn of Visionary Dance
"If the world leaders took the sanctity of life and our future more seriously,
then we would sign all economic, environmental, and peace treaties over the bellies of pregnant women."
~ Delila Flynn of Visionary Dance
Image by Marisa "Sarima" Lopez
From "Dance of the Great Mothers: A Pharaonic Style of Belly Dancing" by Delila Flynn :
"I propose that the original Bellydancer was the great Goddess Gaia herself. Her body rolled and undulated the topography with which she would rock and cradle all the new life forms and prepare the way for the coming of humankind, Her watery, sun-lit womb was alive with the glistening of seeds, and fish, and fowl. A vital whirling dance began to the heartbeat of the pounding rains and drumming surf. A dance for the celebration of life!
Next came the potential in every woman who heard the stories of creation moving through her own body, since our time began. With each birth, her belly's dance gave honor to the sacred with gratitude and the spirit behind the miracle of creativity!
After that came the midwives who studied the wisdom of the earthdance, who learned the ways of herbs, rhythms and drum, who guide the birthing Mothers through the threshold of transition with their own sympathetic ancient birthing dance of wisdom."
"I propose that the original Bellydancer was the great Goddess Gaia herself. Her body rolled and undulated the topography with which she would rock and cradle all the new life forms and prepare the way for the coming of humankind, Her watery, sun-lit womb was alive with the glistening of seeds, and fish, and fowl. A vital whirling dance began to the heartbeat of the pounding rains and drumming surf. A dance for the celebration of life!
Next came the potential in every woman who heard the stories of creation moving through her own body, since our time began. With each birth, her belly's dance gave honor to the sacred with gratitude and the spirit behind the miracle of creativity!
After that came the midwives who studied the wisdom of the earthdance, who learned the ways of herbs, rhythms and drum, who guide the birthing Mothers through the threshold of transition with their own sympathetic ancient birthing dance of wisdom."
