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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...
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medically or therapeutically, as in hydrotherapy, ice baths, or the mud
bath.
People bathe in
water at
temperatures ranging from very cold to very hot...
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agricultural Native American communities.
Certain elements, such as the
sweat bath, prayers, songs, offerings, the use of
ritual paraphernalia, and the observance...
- A **** is a
traditional Mayan bathhouse. It is a
sweat bath or
steam bath.
Traditional **** had
stone walls and live sod roofs. Today, some **** are made...
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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...
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system of cure. They
taught that the
affliction could best be
cured by a
sweat bath followed by a
rapid plunge into cold water.
Furthermore the
vaccines often...
- 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...
- each one of its ends. The
bath is
housed inside a larger—more elaborate—building and was used for
public bathing. The
Great Bath and the
house of the priest...
- northeast. At one end of the
smaller ball
court there is an
adobe sweat bath. This
sweat bath was most
likely used as a
social bonding environment for the...
