A little gift for the initiated - ended, solution posted

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Added new hint.

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So new hint.. I had already tried some first-last-2nd-2ndlast-3rd spirals to no luck. I was thinking for the clue 1 of 8, there's 8 letters in your name, only one of which is also in the line. But there's also 8 numbers, 8 lowercase letters.... am I at all on the right track with either approach?

This is some high level puzzles

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Another day, another hint.

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How.......

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Ginger didn't bring enlightenment but I somehow found my way 🤪

my brain is on drugs or something because one of the eight union territories in india, ladakh is the first buddhist state there and commonly ginger is used to combat the altitude sickness and clear the mind.
(I have no idea how to connect this to clue 1)
(hope youre enjoying seeing me run around on a wild goose chase nuszi555)

so easy%) Bump!

I give up its not like ill get anything anyways. was fun to perform mental gymnastics I guess XD

Solved! Thanks for the puzzle!

My brain has added more grooves, baby

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I'm dying to learn the solution. I hope it doesn't involve actually nibbling ginger, because that's the only thing I haven't tried, and it would be such a shame if it actually allowed me to solve the puzzle!

This was meant to be a simple puzzle, solvable without any knowledge of cryptography and such. It's needs some out-of-the-box thinking though, and I've tried to give hints about not overthinking.
The string contains 35 characters, which could be reorganized into a rectangle of 57 or 75 characters. The gifts ID's have 5 characters, so it's handy to go with the latter. And actually this is what I did, wrote the IDs below each other and read back the result in a specific order.
The initial sentence and many of the hints or answers were plays on the C and S sounds, hissing like a snake. The dance video is performed by Naga Vardhini, where "naga" means "serpent deity" or literally "snake" (or more specifically cobra), and her other video made on the same occasion is called "Snake Dance".
So the characters were meant to be reorganized in a "snake" pattern to recreate the rectangle. People tend to imagine snakes in two shapes, either in spiral or with many S-like turns in series.
I've tried to give hints about ignoring the spiral, without many success - seems like the "negatory" parts of the sentences are too easy to miss (my bad, will keep this in my head for the future puzzles).
Next, there are 4 corners to start placing the characters, and from each corner the pattern could be continued in two directions (from TL to the right, from TL to down, etc...), giving a total of 8 combinations, of which one is the solution.
The first character shall be placed in the bottom left corner, then following 6 all the way up above it, the next one to one step right, the following 6 all the way down, the next one to one step right, and so on... until you get 7 rows of 5-character IDs.