-
practiced a
sweat bath ceremony known as
temazcal as a
religious rite of
penance and purification.
Traditions ****ociated with
sweating vary regionally...
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entire bath is
heated by hot air,
coming through a
special pipe
located under a
marble floor. The
bather lies on the hot
stone and
sweats. When
sweating is...
-
bathing is done more or less
daily for
hygiene purposes. A
ritual religious bath is
sometimes referred to as
immersion or baptism. The use of
water for therapeutic...
- The
Victorian Turkish bath is a type of
bath in
which the
bather sweats freely in hot dry air, is then washed,
often m****aged, and has a cold wash or...
- body or objects. A
bath sheet (or
sheet towel) is
larger than a
bath towel. The
classic bath sheet size is 80×160 cm. A
large bath sheet that can wrap...
- a new wife, but that he
would let her be the "sole out-puller of my
sweat-
bathed hairs". She is angry, and
deliberately plucks the next few
hairs a lot...
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chamber still hotter than the caldarium, and used
simply as a
sweating-room,
having no
bath. It was said to have been
introduced at Rome by
Agrippa and...
- mythology,
Temazcalteci (pronounced [temaskalˈtesi],
Nahuatl temāzcalli '
sweat bath' +
tecitl 'grandmother') was the
goddess of
steam baths.
According to...
- The
expecting mother was told she must
avoid prolonged periods in the
sweat bath, for too much heat was
thought to
roast the
child and it
would be stuck...
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ceremony months before. A day
prior to the ceremony, the girl
takes a
sweat bath,
meanwhile the male
relatives and a
medicine man (a healer) make the items...