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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Qi Gong
Qi Gong 气功 "Breath control". - Traditional Chinese gymnastics and a science of breathing based on knowledge and...
Acupuncture
Acupuncture 针灸 - Traditional therapeutic system of Chinese medicine. Its principle consists to preserve or restore health in...
Ayurveda
Ayurveda आयुर्वॆद - An antic system of medicine in India – Divided into eight canonical components: general medicine,...
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.
Kumadori
Kumadori 隈取 – Kabuki’s makeup.
Kokeshi
Kokeshi (こけし, 小芥子) - Wooden Japanese dolls.
Kabbadi
Kabbadi கைபிடி - A contact team sport mainly in India.
Hikimayu
Hikimayu 引眉 - Removing the natural eyebrows and painting similar ones on the forehead in old Japan.
Pergamon
Pergamon (τὸ Πέργαμον) - Thriving center of parchment production. Unesco Heritage Site 2014... "This site rises high above...
Hatałii
Hatałii - The medicine-man among Navajos people.
Early birds get the worm
"Early birds get the worm."
Harald Blåtand Gormsen
Harald Blåtand Gormsen (died 986) - King of Denmark and Norway.
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);
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...
Baba Yaga
Babayaga Баба Яга - A Slavic supernatural being, living in a hut in a hut standing on chicken...
Gregoire Ahongbonon
Gregoire Ahongbonon (1953-) - Caring for mental illness in West Africa. He founded the St Camille Association in...
marionette
A puppet having jointed parts animated from above or below by hand or through different systems (as strings...
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
grow up
stand up
big (2)
thin (2)
dream
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
bend
tired
sit
How do we represent "siting" and what place does it take in cultures and societies? How do languages...
stand
cold (2)
cigarette
sick person
bath
dirty
bathe
shower
shower (2)
urinate
allergy
towel
defecate
wash
How do we represent "washing" and what place does it take in cultures and societies? How do languages...
toilet
How do we represent "toilets" and what place do they take in cultures and societies? How do languages...
sick
hurt
To cause damage to living tissue following an accident, a will to harm, or sometimes for a specific...
blow (2)
ache
clean
smoke (2)
nurse
lung
blow
sex
How do we represent "sex" and what place does it take in cultures and societies? How do languages...
disease
sexual relation
female sex
drug,medicine (2)
male sex
health
From Ayurvedic knowledge to acupuncture, from the entrance into the inipi to the practice of an angakkuq, from...