How did the dance of the seven veils get started?

Question:with one veil????

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It seemed like a perfect sequel to the Dance of the Six Veils.

With a very tiny tissue

a guy saw 7 veils and thought it be a good name for a play

check out salome...
it was in plays/dramatic events
it is mythological
you could do a dissertation on your question

i'm a belly dancer

i like linda c's answer best!!!

This girl put on seven veils and said start the music. She danced for a while then she took off a veil and danced some more.....

I don't believe the origin is completely known, but the most famous reference is in the Bible when King Herod asks his daughter to dance for him, which she does, sparking an incestuous desire and persuading the King to grant her wish for John the Baptist's head.
I think there are variations of the dance done still in Western culture, and in certain plays such as the opera "Salome", but otherwise I don't really here of it being done.
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King Herod asked Salomi to dance for him, she said that she would dance with veils and end naked provided he gave her the head of John the baptist to avenge the death of her mother

1. Adorn yourself with 7 veils cos you forgot your skirt.

2. Wiggle around dancing.

3. Get too hot with all wiggling and start peeling off layers.

A number of things can obscure the dream. I’m reminded of Salome and her seven veils. The only real woman in the opera, Kundry, is also Herodias, Salome’s mother, bound to wander the world, like Wotan, or the Flying Dutchman.

Herodias’s crime was hubris – she laughed at the head of John the Baptist. Herod had married her, his brother’s widow. John complained this was against Jewish law. One night Salome danced for Herod so delightfully he said she could have whatever she wanted. Salome asked her mother, who told her to ask for ‘the head of John the Baptist’.

Wagner raised the stakes. He makes Herodias laugh at Jesus – some say ‘on the Cross’, but the libretto doesn’t. Wagner used a late variant of the well-known Wandering Jew myth, in which Ahasuerus meets Jesus on the road to Calvary. In this variant male Ahasuerus becomes or is twinned by female Herodias.

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Seven Veils?

They are, of course, what Salome wore when she danced for Herod that time.

A strip-tease act, no less - no wonder this idea has caught people’s (well, chaps’) imagination over the centuries.

We experience Parsifal as a vivid dream. It’s an extension of the grand composite dream of the Celtic bards, between about 500 and 1200, when Christianity was supplanting the old religion in Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Brittany, Spain and pan-Germany

She puts her left foot in
Her left foot out
Her left foot in
And she shakes it all about
She does the Okey Kokey and she turns around
That's what its all about !!

The dance of the seven veils is a myth and is not an actual dance. it comes from the story of Salome which actually has it's origins in the Babylonian legend of Ishtar. Ishtar journey's into the underground to save her beloved but she must pass though seven gates. At each gate she must remove a veil in order to pass through the gate. the veils in the story represent shedding those things which "veil" or minds and souls so that when Ishtar finally passes through the seventh gate she is nude but her mind and soul are clear.