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PRODUCT: Within ancient and modern spiritual traditions, the dance is metaphor for life, and ancient choreography, moving with the rhythm of the earth to the music of the cosmos. Within Celtic tradition, the Ceilidh is a gathering, a celebration of music, story telling and dance where the long winter’s nights are passed to the music of the fiddle, whistle, the beat of the bodhran drum. The traditional Celtic dances weave intricate patterns of circles, spirals, and squares, in arrangements of threes and fours - a natural expression of the eternal knot. In ritual dances, such as the annual Beltaine Maypole Dance, men and women weave ribbons on ancient spiral patterns around the phallic tree to raise and manifest the fertile earth energies. The Morris Dancers continue the tradition of the Shaman dances. They wear antler headdress and costumes of red and white representing the colors of the other world. Their clogs, sticks and bells stamp out rhythms in circle and square patterns on the earth in celebration of the ancient horned god of fertility and strength. The Lord of the Dance is one of the oldest gods of the natural world. Within the Christian religion, he is still honored as the force at the center of our spiritual and metaphysical lives. Ordering
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