Mythology progressed in various ways throughout the Asian, European, Middle Eastern, and African continents. Often the same mythology is rehashed and cross-culturally explored through a character or deity with remarkably similar characteristics and placement with other characters in the story plot. These characterized themes are simply the human way of understanding pattern, universal principals, and the cyclic nature of our being.

Dance, however, in its primal state, bypasses many “mental analyses” and seems to translate a type of elemental universal knowledge directly through the body.

In dance, the body becomes a vehicle for three things:

a) The establishment of a rhythmic pattern response through the rhythm and tempo of percussion, thus creating a physiological and psychological effect. Drums are primal and instant in their effect with a core range of tempos from 60-180 beats per minute (BPM) that affect our physiology (our entire endocrine system noticeably speeds up simply by listening to 130 BPM, while 60 BPM is pacifying and is often used in hypnosis).

b) Creating a music-melody-movement response to the various instruments played, thus tuning body movement with sound wavelength and frequencies. Instruments are held by the player near the body area that harnesses the frequency of the specific instrument. For example, drums are approximately 50 MHz, as is the frequency of the pelvic area in humans. Flutes are pitched at almost 4,000 MHz as is the frequency of the head area in humans. This explains why African warriors dance using low, grounded aggressive movements to earthy drums, while the Sufi dervishes spin to flutes for enlightenment. Fiery guitars sit in the mid-body area, with qualities matching the solar plexus’ characteristics of pride and courage apparent in Spanish flamenco. The emotive heart area tunes into a higher frequency again, so instruments like the accordion and violin create music that engage feeling and “pull the heartstrings.”

c) Tuning into cosmological principals based on the body’s ability to create SPACE, WEIGHT and SHAPE in unchanging elemental fractal geometry. We dance the shapes and patterns that music creates, thus replicating the pattern in a physical, kinesthetic dimension.

Therefore as we dance, the tempo of the rhythm and the emotive frequency of the music and melody are demonstrated through the organic body-mechanics of dance. Dance becomes the art representing the music - “The Music of the Spheres”. We fall into fractal patterning and “know” instinctively that when a certain drum pattern emerges, we step and rock into it. Like the zaar dancers who instinctively swing and shake their bodies into trance states through moving meditation on the rhythm. Or Sufi dervishes who step and whirl in tune to the rhythm that takes them to psychological nirvana. Rhythm is a natural evolution of cosmological mathematics and this is possibly best portrayed in Islamic art.

Islamic art is based on art that expresses god through pattern – the cosmological patterns of the universe, as god creates it – an unchanging, unyielding force to be respected and revered. These fractal images are repeated in Arabic rhythms and music, even in dance.

Assembled in this order, what can this tell us about other philosophies?

The first correlation that becomes apparent is that these are the EXACT alignments of the colours of the Hindu-Buddhist chakra system from root to crown chakra. The physical placement of the instruments are also in harmony with the assembly; instruments are played on the part of the body that harnesses the four elemental qualities and the same body area responds to the instrument, expressing its attributes along with element, sound frequency, and colour synchronicity.

The elements carry a planetary mathematics with them, which is seasonal, fractal, and perpetual. This, in ancient times, was expressed as the astrological system of twelve parts or signs: three water signs (Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio), three earth signs (Virgo, Taurus, Capricorn), three air (Aquarius, Libra, Gemini) and three fire signs (Leo, Aries, Sagittarius). Each sign is ruled by a planet and carries a set of characteristics that portray the “trinity” or “three aspects” of each element. For example, water is represented as Pisces (flowing water), Cancer (intuitive, lunar-ruled maternal water), Scorpio (deep mysteries of water). The signs then begin to speak a language that tie them back to the elements, to shape, to character and frequency of body expression. In fact, the signs rule various parts of the body – Aries rules the head, Taurus the throat, and so on, with the last sign of Pisces ruling the feet.

Each sign is also attributed a specific colour – the astrological colour wheel begins with red at Aries (passion and impulse from Mars, the red planet, god of war) and ends with violet at Pisces (enlightenment and spirituality – Neptune’s nebulous yet flowing compassion). Exactly opposite and equal to the chakra system, these colour-codes match up from the traditional colour of the root chakra (red) at the base of the spine to the crown chakra (violet) at the top of the head. The array of colours takes its order from the wavelengths of the colour spectrum, seen in crystals and rainbows (images often arbitrarily used to promote a variety of “new age” gimmicks, from quit-smoking hypnosis to organic weight loss tablets). Recent media has loosely linked the ancient sacred cosmological references of mandalas, colour wheels, and zodiac symbolism to a wide range of products. Some certainly reflect deeper principals, but most are designed as a nouveau pop-culture emblem to lure the “new ager” to seek enlightenment through their wallet.

WOO HOO ANGEL! Let's keep creating music with our bodies! Belly dancing or any dancing is a  language spoken from the soul and our bodies becomes the instrument...it just flows! Dancing is a feeling...deep deep soulful feeling...eyes intensely soft...body limber...moving with peaceful sensual magnetic rythmic body language...our hips don't lie! ;)

I love feeling my Arabic blood! TY my Angel!

thank you Soul, and I love to feel what I feel when I dance... I can't describe you, if I could just to share a little part of that feeling with every person.... Bellydance is my biggest passion and more!

and thank you Kia for reading, this was a part of my theoric class and I enjoyed too, there are some many interest things that I learned.... so, I though to translate it and to post it here  and that's true, it's not only dance, but to feel deep inside your soul the music.....

Oh Angel,  I have enjoyed your thoughts and writings here so much!  Thank you.