The Friday Olympic Video: Bolero
Posted on August 3rd, 2012 by witchsbrew
Oh, yeah! This is so Pagan! Bull-dancing goes back at least 3,500 years to the Minoan civilization of Ancient Crete. A “bolero,” by the way, is the short, fitted jacket that Spanish bull fighters wear. According to Nancy Manahan & Becky Bohan at the Nanbec Blog, the light-skinned dancers are women (Minoans–like Ancient Egyptians–depicted female [...]
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