Symbols - What does heaven look like
Dance, the
The Dance of life and the Dance of Death are not as they at first appear.
For a spiritually minded person, the spirit world is the Dance of life, it is the 'ring o ring o roses'. And for this same spiritually minded person, happy in the perfect realm of spirit, 'death' is being born. Thus the Dance of Death or the Danse Macabre is life itself, the macabre trip we have to make in the physical world, acting out our role as puppet in the theatre that is life and wearing the mask of our personality to achieve our destiny here.
All forms of circular dance also symbolically represent the Wheel of life. There we are on the rim again in this round of incarnation, round and round in another wearisome revolution [sorry, getting carried away]. There is a connection here with the maypole.
The Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre (French), Danza Macabra (Italian), Dansul Morţii (Romanian), Danza de la Muerte (Spanish), Dansa de la Mort (Catalan), Dança Macabra (Portuguese language), Totentanz (German), Dodendans (Dutch), Surmatants (Estonian), is commonly thought of today as some sort of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all. But if you look at the symbolism more closely it is not this at all. The picture often shows living people of all sorts - dancing along to a hole in the ground, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and labourer.
The hole in the ground is the tunnel, but it is the tunnel to being born not the tunnel of death itself. The figures show the roles or the destiny each one has been give to fulfill.
Observations
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- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 03 - A Caucus race and a long tail
- Alice in Wonderland - Ch 10 - 1 Lobster quadrille
- Appalachian Spring: Variations on a Shaker Melody - Aaron Copland
- Auden, W H - Time will say nothing but I told you so
- Bhagavad Gita - There lives a Master in the hearts of men
- Böcklin, Arnold - Die Lebensinsel (Isle of Life) 1888
- Böcklin, Arnold - The Bagpiper 1861
- Book of Five Spheres - On Rhythm in Martial Arts
- Book of Five Spheres - The Wind Scroll and Speed
- Burton, Sir Richard - THE KASÎDAH 03 4
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Third Day
- Cohen, Leonard - Dance me to the end of love
- Dance of death
- Dancing with God Amanitas - A. Muscaria by btorzyn
- David Byrne & St. Vincent - The Forest awakes
- Degas - In the dance studio
- Dowson, Ernest - Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 02 Burnt Norton II
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 03 Burnt Norton V
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 12 The Dry Salvages V
- Eno, Brian - Roxy Music – Do the Strand
- Faithfull, Marianne - Flaming September
- Faithfull, Marianne - Bored By Dreams
- Frost, Robert - We dance round in a ring and suppose
- Gerhardie, William - Resurrection - Perception recall 1
- Han Shan - Encounters with Cold Mountain Translated by Peter Stambler - AUDIENCE
- Harivamsha Purana - Overcoming the serpent Kaliya
- Heine, Heinrich - In the wild whirl of the dancers
- Heywood, Rosalind - The Infinite Hive - There appeared a figure clothed in soft blues and greens and purples, infinitely benign and compassionate
- Hockney, David - Lady Midnight songs - 3 Autumn
- Jung, C G - The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature - Harlequin
- Kabir - What comes out of the harp? Music
- Kammerer, Paul - Systems, functions and function dependency explained
- Keightley, Thomas - The Elfdans
- Knight, Dame Laura – Ballet and theatre – 01
- Lalla - Dance Lalla, with nothing on
- Lame Deer - Native American Indians - Clowns
- Matisse - the Dance I and II
- Misc. source - Mayan maypole
- Munch, Edvard - Dance of Life and Vampire
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - It is true we love life
- Nietzsche - Thus spake Zarathustra - LIX The Second Dance Song
- Nuremberg Chronicle - Twin Peaks
- Ogotommeli - The Smith
- Pauli, Wolfgang - Letter 28th September 1952
- Pinchbeck, Daniel - Ten years of therapy in one night – 04
- Poussin - Dance to the music of time
- Ravidas – from the Adi Granth 12
- Reid, Christopher - From Skull Garden
- Renoir - Dances and pianos
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 18 Fourth Elegy
- Ring o ring o roses
- Riverdance - Lord of the Dance
- Rumi - Quote - various
- Rumi - Rubaiyat - There is no wine without You
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Dancing like a Drunkard
- Seven Ages of Man - 01 The Boskopoid people – from Lyall Watson Dreams and Dragons
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - Creator and Created
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - The Dance
- Shakespeare - Orpheus
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 07 - A village in heaven 1937
- Spender, Stephen - Passing, men are sorry for the birds in cages
- Sting - Shape of my Heart
- Sting - Until
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 371
- Thomas, Dylan - Was there a Time
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 04 - 1 Tweedledum and Tweedledee
- Toulouse Lautrec - Moulin Rouge nightlife
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1896 Dancers
- Von Stuck, Franz - Cupid at the Masked Ball
- Waterhouse, John William - After the Dance
- Watson, Sir William - Epigram - In mid whirl of the dance of Time ye start
- Watts, Alan - The Purpose of the Dance
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler - The Waltz quadrille
- Williams, John - Conducts Devil's Dance
- Yeats, W B - Selected poems - Among schoolchildren
- Yu Xuanji - Late spring
- Zohar - Bamidbar 159A - What did G-d want from man in this world?