Ring a Ring O'Roses" or "Ring Around the Rosie" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground game that first appeared in print in 1881 but was recited to the current tune at least as early as the 1790s. [1][2] Its origin is often mistakenly connected to the bubonic plague.
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it is important to note that when this rhyme first appeared in print, the British were in control of India. This would explain how the rhyme ended up in England. One viewer suggested that, perhaps, a Hindu nannie created the game for English children
I believe that the best-known versions of "Ring a-round a Rosy" owe their existence to the mythology of the Hindu god Shiva, who is best known to Westerners as the god of Destruction. But it goes further than that, for it is in his similar roles as Natara'ja ("Dance King") and Kapa'lin ("Adorned with Skulls") that he uses his Dance to re-energize life and the cosmos. It is in both roles that he represents the inseparability between life and death, and therefore, reincarnation.