Assertion: dance | /r/CapableOf | begin as dance
Facets:
value: to the goddess
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: by priestesses
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: To claim the dance away from a patriarchal setting, and to emphasize the sense of freedom it engenders in women who embrace it, very different stories of origins are told: that the dance began as a birth ritual, or a dance by priestesses to the Goddess.