Buto Definition

noun
A dance form developed in postwar Japan which rejects Eastern and Western dance conventions, expressing intense emotions through slow, controlled, and sometimes distorted movements.
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Origin of Buto

  • Japanese butō short for (ankoku) butō dance (of darkness) bu dance (from Middle Chinese ʋuə̆´) tō to step on, stamp, tread (from Middle Chinese dap) probably also influenced by tō to stamp on, tread (from Middle Chinese tfiaw)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Buto Sentence Examples

  • Nekhbi, goddess of El Kab, represented the Upper or Southern Kingdom, which was also under the tutelage of the god Seth, the goddess Buto and the god Horus similarly presiding over the Lower Kingdom.

  • Busiris is here probably an earlier and less accurate Graecism than Osiris for the name of the Egyptian god Usiri, like Bubastis, Buto, for the goddesses Ubasti and Uto.

  • Busiris, Bubastis, Buto, more strictly represent Pusiri, Pubasti, Puto, cities sacred to these divinities.

  • For this reason it is often hard to tell where the primitive cult-centre of a particular deity is to be sought; thus Horus seems equally at home both at Buto in the Delta and at Hieraconpolis in Upper Egypt,, and the earliest worship of Seth appears to have been claimed no less by Tanis in the north than by Ombos in the south.

  • Then while she was absent visiting her sop Horus he city of Buto, Seth once more gained possession of the se, cut it into fourteen pieces, and scattered them all over pt.

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Words Starting With

BBUBUT

Words Ending With

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Words Starting With B and Ending With O

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