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SWIRLING TURBAN AND THE SPINNING THETAN, GENTLEMEN OF THE

SWIRLING TURBAN AND THE SPINNING THETAN, GENTLEMEN OF THE
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reference to persons such as whirling dervishes, members of any various Moslem orders of ascetics (ones who lead a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion or penance), which employ whirling dances and the chanting of religious formulas to produce a collective ecstasy. —3rd South African unpublished Appr GLS (19.3.92)