A whirling sacred dance is built around sustained spinning turns, most familiar from the Sufi sema of the Mevlevi order, where the turn itself is the practice, a repeated physical act used to induce a contemplative or ecstatic state rather than to tell a story or embody a spirit. Sema is the example recorded here.
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