Ka'el - An annual contest in the Bodi tribe (Ethiopia), which takes place on the New Year, aims...
Banya
Banya баня - a Slavic steam bath consisting of a small room with a stove. Very central in...
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius (1514 –1564) - A Flemish anatomist and physician, founder of modern human anatomy. Author of De...
Khoomei
Khoomei Хөөмей or Hooliin Chor - Mongolian throat singing also practiced in Inner Mongolia, Tuva and Siberia -...
Ibn Sina
Ibn Sina ابن سینا or Avicenna (c. 980 – June 1037) - a Persian Muslim polymath, physician and astronomer...
Tsantsa
Shrunken head or tsantsa – A practice of headshrinking by the Jivaroan tribes (Shuar, Achuar, Huambisa, Aguaruna) used...
Tahu’a
Tahu’a - A man of religion in Polynesian societies in charge of ritual ceremonies, having a broad knowledge...
Asclepius
Asclepius Ἀσκληπιός - God of medicine in ancient Greek religion, son of Apollo – The rod of Asclepius...
Li Shizhen
Li Shizhen 李时珍 (1518 - 1593) – A Chinese physician, naturalist, pharmacologist, herbalist and acupuncturist, known for his...
Traditional healers of Southern Africa
Traditional healers of Southern Africa - Practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa comprising of diviners (sangoma),...
Auðumbla
Auðumbla - A primeval cowin Norse mythology. Ymir fed from her milk, and over the course of three...
Ayurveda
Ayurveda आयुर्वॆद - An antic system of medicine in India – Divided into eight canonical components: general medicine,...
Break a leg
IDIOM - "Break a leg" (EN) --> An idiom to wish a performer "good luck"!
Yoga
Yoga योग "to attach, join, harness, yoke" - Disciplines or practices resulting from Indian philosophies that seeks through...
Inipi
Inipi - A type of sweat lodge, a Lakota purification ceremony. Stones are heated and placed in the...
Acupuncture
Acupuncture 针灸 - Traditional therapeutic system of Chinese medicine. Its principle consists to preserve or restore health in...
Qi Gong
Qi Gong 气功 "Breath control". - Traditional Chinese gymnastics and a science of breathing based on knowledge and...
Tengu
Tengu 天狗 ("heavenly dog") – A Japanese legendary creature taking their name from a dog-like Chinese demon and...
Hospicio Cabañas
Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara – One of the oldest and largest hospital complexes in the Americas founded in 1791....
Cuir de Cordoue
Cuir de Cordoue (cordwain / cordovan / gold leather) – Painted and gilded leather hangings originated from North...
Udjat
Udjat - Eye of Horus - An Egyptian symbol of protection, royal power, and health.
Zhuangzi
Zhuangzi 莊子 - One of the two foundational texts of Daoism - The dream of a butterfly.
Nádleeh Two-Spirit
Nádleeh... "One who is transformed"... Two-Spirit among Navajos people.
Omondi
Omondi - The one who, when he was born, woke up his mother early in the morning."
Mano
Mano - An "honoring-gesture" in Filipino culture.
Khachkar
Khachkar խաչքար - An Armenian cross-stone.
Kokeshi
Kokeshi (こけし, 小芥子) - Wooden Japanese dolls.
Kumadori
Kumadori 隈取 – Kabuki’s makeup.
Hikimayu
Hikimayu 引眉 - Removing the natural eyebrows and painting similar ones on the forehead in old Japan.
Kabbadi
Kabbadi கைபிடி - A contact team sport mainly in India.
Pergamon
Pergamon (τὸ Πέργαμον) - Thriving center of parchment production.
Harald Blåtand Gormsen
Harald Blåtand Gormsen (died 986) - King of Denmark and Norway.
Hatałii
Hatałii - The medicine-man among Navajos people.
Early birds get the worm
"Early birds get the worm."
Incense in Yemen
Incense Route – For trading frankincense, myrrh, precious stones...
Hen
Hen - A gender-neutral personal pronoun in Swedish - an alternative to hon "she" and han "he".
Exoskeleton
Exoskeleton - An external skeleton supporting and protecting the body...
Capoeira
Capoeira - UNESCO World Intangible Heritage 2014 - An Afro-Brazilian cultural practice (simultaneously a fight and a dance);
The Decameron
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) - 100 tales for escaping the Black Death outside Florence.
Baba Yaga
Babayaga Баба Яга - A Slavic supernatural being, living in a hut in a hut standing on chicken...
Atoll
Atoll - A generally ring-shaped coral reef around a lagoon.
Asubakatchin
Asabikeshiinh – A dreamcatcher originating in Ojibwe culture, made of a net and used as a protection or...
Grégoire Ahongbonon
Grégoire Ahongbonon (1953-) - Caring for mental illness in West Africa. He founded of the St Camille Association...
anger
laugh
conscious
consciousness
sport
How do we represent "sport" and what place does it take in cultures and societies? How do languages...
armor
practice
lift
tired
sit
How do we represent "siting" and what place does it take in cultures and societies? How do languages...
stand
stand up
dream
bend
grow up
big (2)
thin (2)
sleep
How do we represent "sleeping" and what place does it take in cultures and societies? How do languages...
lay down
nightmare
hotel
wake up
cold (2)
sick person
ache
smoke (2)
dirty
cigarette
wash
How do we represent "washing" and what place does it take in cultures and societies? How do languages...
bath
allergy
towel
bathe
shower
shower (2)
toilet
How do we represent "toilets" and what place do they take in cultures and societies? How do languages...
urinate
defecate
sick
hurt
To cause damage to living tissue following an accident, a will to harm, or sometimes for a specific...
clean
blow (2)
bleed
intestine
breathe
disease
lung
blow
drug,medicine (2)
sex
How do we represent "sex" and what place does it take in cultures and societies? How do languages...
sexual relation
treat,cure
female sex
male sex
health
From Ayurvedic knowledge to acupuncture, from the entrance into the inipi to the practice of an angakkuq, from...