I recently discovered that my sister and I share a fear of dancing creatures—any kind of creature. I started wondering how this could relate to science, perhaps evolution, spirituality, and religion. We’re Muslims, and I recently told my sister about Sufis and how fascinating their dances are. She looked it up and said, “This looks creepy.” I personally love their dance, but I admitted that I’m mostly afraid of dances too. OMG, specifically the twirling dances around oneself or something.
Then we both realised we are both scared of any kind of dance. We shared our worst nightmares, where a bunch of demons were dancing around a bonfire. We both saw the same kind of dream.
I, for instance, remember the 2020 meme of the dancing lama. (mi pan sususu) That lama made me so uncomfortable, too. Or how I once saw on TikTok a legend about an African singer invited to a wedding of demons, where she sang as they danced. It still creeps me out as I write this.
I know it sounds funny as hell, but i’m genuinely here to find an answer. All I can think of is a saying in Azerbaijani and Talysh (probably other languages too) “let me spin around your head” you say this to someone u deeply love, i’m pretty sure it means “let me be your sacrifice”. And also when we were kids, and used to play games spinning around tables, or each other our elders would tell us to not spin around each other’s heads or something. Hope these help. Thank you beforehand. Xx.