To this day Nyau-dances are being exercised by followers of the old natural religions in the regions of South-East Africa and are a part of everyday life. While in these regions women are connected with life-giving and goddesses control regeneration, men exercise their influence on all facets of death and ancestral worship. Therefore they perform nocturnal rituals and dances in the light of the moonlight wearing masks under utmost secrecy. One of the melodies that were written and handed down by the South African music-ethnologist Hugh Tracey begins with the words Kalulu nkulo wa bwalo (the rabbit is king of the animals’ court). For this dance the dancers carry animal masks and embody, sometimes even raised by stilts, antelopes, elephants and lions. Grové transferred the characteristics of these three animals to his music. Notably, the graceful motions of the antelope were drawn in bars 32 and 40.