Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi (1207-1273) is a very important figure in Turkish culture and belief. The Semah Ceremony represents different meanings of the mystical return (Ascension, Miraj) towards perfection. Modern science confirms that the fundamental condition of our existence is that it does not rotate.

Nothing rotates. Everything that rotates, and man, a rotating Dervish, sustains his existence by rotating (towards God) thanks to the revolutions in his atoms, the structural elements in his body, his blood circulation, and the rotation of the Earth.