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You can’t convince me that games like this, hopscotch and skipping rhymes, aren’t some sort of spell. It’s like witchcraft 101 for all the little girls out there
Yao dancers, Lianzhou, Guangdong Province, Southern China:
Deng Yingfa Yao Culture Teacher:
“Our culture is very precious. And for example, the dances and songs we sing don’t have scores, they can only be passed down by word of mouth, to the next generation. It’s important for the young to know them, before these arts are known by others.”
Wow, I didn’t know cultures other than in the Philippines did dances with bamboo poles, that’s awesome!
In the Philippines, there are two main dances involving bamboo poles. One is the singkil, which depicts a story from the Maranao epic poem Darangen. In the story, a princess and her attendants get abducted and a prince goes to save them. The bamboo poles represent the various challenges they had to get through. Here’s an example:
The other one is the Tinikling, which has more rural post Spanish colonization roots, and it’s often staged as a town festival where the dancers attempt increasingly fast and complicated moves to wow the crowd.
I’ve also seen more modern adaptations of Filipino dances, here’s one for the Tinikling - it makes me happy to see our historical dances integrated to present day!
oh thank GOD tumblr did its thing. I saw a reposted uncredited video on tiktok and did some googling only to discover that a lot of cultures have variations on this, and I wanted to learn a lot more! it’s so nice to see the comments here.
There’s also the Cheraw dance from Mizoram, a state in India. I’m not from this part of India and don’t know much about it so hopefully someone else can add on.
This is like our Sword Dancing in Scotland!
tumblr being all adults nowadays is so funny because my mutuals are either unemployed chainsmokers or Ezra, Bioengineering PHD Candidate at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
one of the important lessons to learn about adult life is that the gap between an unemployed chainsmoker and a bioengineering phd candidate is actually not that large
A skeleton, a zombie, and a ghost all make up 1 full human
oh I am DEFINITELY going to write a story based on this… can you imagine? Some wacky experimental magic ceremony goes wrong and you wind up undying but you’re split into all three?
I picture zombie self defined by sloth and gluttony, just lazy and hungry all the time. Skeleton self would be, what, sort of adrenaline jock warrior type, ready to jump off a cliff or fight somebody at all times? And ghost self would be like, moody anti-social self, with occasional fits of ADHD poltergeist energy. But all like, facets of the same person, sort of an external version of that literary device where there are several versions of you arguing in your head.
Hmmm, would you share a mind? partially, I think, yeah, so if the skeleton really thought about it, they would be able to know what the ghost is doing right now, or remember things the zombie has seen etc.
Oh yes, this will be written about, yes yes indeed
and then it never was
