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...ce takes place, where Helstonians take part in a pagan ritual processional dance through the town in a custom that pre-dates Christianity and probably dates The dance takes place each eighth of May unless it falls on a Sunday or Monday and wa

...tl, or demonstrate their power by summoning No’nlEmg i.a figures (dantsikw dance boards) to rise from the earth (abstract representation of Sisiutl). Supern ...s of the Kwakiutl Winter Dance. When the dancer enters the house where the dance is taking place he dons his mask, representing the double-headed sea serpen

[[Image:Kuniteru Gozu dragon.jpg|thumb|right|Susanoo slaying the Yamata no Orochi, by Kuniteru]] ...Chinese lóng 龍, nāga ナーガ from Sanskrit nāga, and doragon ドラゴン from English dragon.

...milar to other Oriental dragons, it was strongly influenced by the Chinese dragon. ...so they venerated crocodiles as "Giao Long", the first kind of Vietnamese dragon.

...a reindeer head with staring eyes, very likely became the reindeer in the dance. Similarly, a masked corpse overcame death by putting on the mask of life, *In the Disney Channel Original Series "American Dragon: Jake Long", the Season #2 premiere featured the Gorgon Sisters. However, '