Chapter 7: DANCING THE DANCE ON
Eve Jackson
Figure 7.1 Dancers from frieze of sanctuary propylaeum, 340 BCE, Samothrace
Figure 7.2 Warrior dance, vase from Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (from Lawler, The Dance in Ancient Greece)
Figure 7.3 Bull-masked dancers, vase, British Museum (also from Lawler, The Dance in Ancient Greece)
Figure 7.4 Painting by Theophilos (1873–1934), Theophilos Museum, Mytilene
Figure 7.5 Tsakonikos
Figure 7.6 “Crane dance,” François vase, sixth century BCE, National Archeology Museum, Florence
Figure 7.7 “Opposed snake” vase, Romania, fifth-millennium BCE (Gimbutas)—the lines correspond to the movement of the dancers in Tsakonikos, some going toward the center, others outward.
Figure 7.8 Cranes’ mating dance
Figure 7.9 Coin from Knossos, second-century BCE (Kerényi, from Labyrinth-Studien)
Figure 7.10 Labyrinth from Mesopotamia (Kerényi, from Labyrinth-Studien)
Figure 7.11 Figurine, fifth millennium BCE, Volos Museum (Gimbutas, from The Language of the Goddess)
Figure 7.12 Painting by Ayahuascero, Peru (Narby, from The Cosmic Serpent)
Figure 7.13 Minoan vase with octopus
Figure 7.14 “Prince of the lily” fresco, Knossos
Figure 7.15 Kamares ware bowl
Figure 7.16 Disk of Phaistos
Figure 7.17 Minoan priestess figurine, Knossos
Figure 7.18 Spherical vortex
Figure 7.19 Handkerchief dream image from Jung, “Concerning mandala symbolism,” CW 9i
Figure 7.20 Diagram of maze in Chartres Cathedral
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