"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.
4 comments:
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
Sean,
Prologue, p. 4.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Thanks! I will soon reread that text, to see how "The Lord Of The Dance" was rewritten in a pagan sense.
Sean
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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