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SWIRLING TURBAN AND THE SPINNING THETAN, GENTLEMEN OF THE (1)
SWIRLING TURBAN AND THE SPINNING THETAN, GENTLEMEN OF THE (1)
ScnMaster
reference
to persons such as whirling dervishes, members of any various Moslem orders of ascetics (ones who
lead
a
life
of
austere
self
-
discipline
, especially as an
act
of
religious
devotion or penance), which employ whirling dances and the chanting of
religious
formulas
to
produce
a
collective
ecstasy.
—
3rd South African
published appr gls (14.4.92)