abstract:The (Greek) Sille dances are ceremonial, most of them are performed by two persons facing each other. There is a dance, performed by women only, which is similar to the 19th- or 20th-century BC Phaistos cup that professor Doro Levi found at the cave of Eileithyia, which presents the figures of two women dancing around a snake goddess or priestess (Kerenyi Eleusis, p.