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A ballet visibly stresses the performant function even though, traditionally, it also claims to communicate some meaning. In sports, the performant function dominates more openly; but, in a symbiotic relation, it derives much of its vitality from a grafted referential function that operates through cultural signs. … As a rule, however, the performant function, when it is supported by truly impressive circus performances, tends to monopolize the audience's attention.

At the beginning of the previous century those who first ardently abandoned themselves to these studies believed that one would rediscover the Ur-language, the Ur-wisdom, the Ur-religion, even the Ur-culture and Ur-homeland of our Aryan ancestors in India.