Monday, 29 May 2017

The Lord Of The Dance

Poul Anderson wrote a convincing Odin and could also have handled Hindu gods but no one can do everything.

"The Lord of the Dance" is:

an unconventional Christian hymn;
a title of Shiva;
a fictitious pagan god in Hellblazer (see here);
an Irish dancer (see here).

There is one pagan rewrite of the hymn in Hellblazer and another in SM Stirling's The Scourge Of God, Prologue, which I am starting to read.
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4 comments:

  1. Sean M. Brooks29 May 2017 at 15:47

    Kaor. Paul!

    I'm actually familiar with that hymn, "The Lord of the Dance," which I first read in Fr. Andrew Greeley's 1984 novel LORD OF THE DANCE. But I somehow missed how that hymn was reused by Stirling in THE SCOURGE OF GOD.

    Sean

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    1. paulshackley2017@gmail.com29 May 2017 at 17:02

      Sean,
      Prologue, p. 4.
      Paul.

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    2. Sean M. Brooks29 May 2017 at 17:40

      Kaor, Paul!

      Thanks! I will soon reread that text, to see how "The Lord Of The Dance" was rewritten in a pagan sense.

      Sean

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  2. Jim Baerg22 July 2023 at 23:49

    The hymn "Lord of the Dance" reuses the tune from an earlier hymn "Simple Gifts".
    That tune was used by Aaron Copland in the ballet "Appalachian Spring".

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