>> The Taraltarans use music and dance in quest of cosmic oneness.
>> They stage elaborate, whirling dances in which their flashing
>> double scimitars weave a web of steel ...
> Are there only male Taraltarans?
Certainly not. Who'd you think that is in the traditional gamers' S&M bondage gear on HW:RiG p.84?
> Does everybody use this scimitar-dance warlike approach? Maybe
> there is a also a strip-dance (no not strip-tease, a dance using
> strips and ribbons) as a more pacific counterpart.
This is something I've thought about before, and I agree. Though IMO a strip-tease "Dance of the Seven Veils" would be *very* appropriate for Lunar mystics, too. (Too many Levitating Bald Chicks are bad for the eyesight...).
> I don't remember the indian name for danceresses, but they were
> a recurrent secondary character in those old-fashioned adventure
> books taking place in victorian or earlier India.
You mean Nautch dancers? (Flashman broadens the mind).
Cheers, Nick
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