Shrunken head or tsantsa – A practice of headshrinking by the Jivaroan tribes (Shuar, Achuar, Huambisa, Aguaruna) used...
Khoomei
Khoomei Хөөмей or Hooliin Chor - Mongolian throat singing also practiced in Inner Mongolia, Tuva and Siberia -...
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius (1514 –1564) - A Flemish anatomist and physician, founder of modern human anatomy. Author of De...
Ibn Sina
Ibn Sina ابن سینا or Avicenna (c. 980 – June 1037) - a Persian Muslim polymath, physician and astronomer...
Tahu’a
Tahu’a - A man of religion in Polynesian societies in charge of ritual ceremonies, having a broad knowledge...
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),...
Asclepius
Asclepius Ἀσκληπιός - God of medicine in ancient Greek religion, son of Apollo – The rod of Asclepius...
Auðumbla
Auðumbla - A primeval cowin Norse mythology. Ymir fed from her milk, and over the course of three...
Inipi
Inipi - A type of sweat lodge, a Lakota purification ceremony. Stones are heated and placed in the...
Break a leg
IDIOM - "Break a leg" (EN) --> An idiom to wish a performer "good luck"!
Ayurveda
Ayurveda आयुर्वॆद - An antic system of medicine in India – Divided into eight canonical components: general medicine,...
Yoga
Yoga योग "to attach, join, harness, yoke" - Disciplines or practices resulting from Indian philosophies that seeks through...
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.
Early birds get the worm
"Early birds get the worm."
Hatałii
Hatałii - The medicine-man among Navajos people.
Harald Blåtand Gormsen
Harald Blåtand Gormsen (died 986) - King of Denmark and Norway.
Pergamon
Pergamon (τὸ Πέργαμον) - Thriving center of parchment production.
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...
The Decameron
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) - 100 tales for escaping the Black Death outside Florence.
Capoeira
Capoeira - UNESCO World Intangible Heritage 2014 - An Afro-Brazilian cultural practice (simultaneously a fight and a dance);
Asubakatchin
Asabikeshiinh – A dreamcatcher originating in Ojibwe culture, made of a net and used as a protection or...
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.
Grégoire Ahongbonon
Grégoire Ahongbonon - Caring for mental illness in West Africa.