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Whirling

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General Reference

Divinity Atlas. "Whirling." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/sacreddance/whirling.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Whirling. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/sacreddance/whirling

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-whirling,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Whirling},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/sacreddance/whirling},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

A whirling sacred dance is built around sustained spinning turns, most familiar from the Sufi sema of the Mevlevi order, where the turn itself is the practice, a repeated physical act used to induce a contemplative or ecstatic state rather than to tell a story or embody a spirit. Sema is the example recorded here.

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