Mikkel Aaland
"It's All An Adventure"
by Leon Elder
Chapter 1: Sweat Bathing and the Body
“Give me a fever and I can cure any disease” – Hippocrates
Chapter 2: Mediterranean Baths
Water of winter, heat of summer, sweetness of autumn, and smile of spring.-Islamic poet, 18th century
Whoever cleans himself in this bath
Unites with God
And cleanses in one bath
His body and soul, as he should
– Thomas Murner, Badenfahrt 1514
Chapter 3: The Finnish Sauna
If a sick person is not cured by tar, spirits or sauna, then they will die. – Finnish proverb
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Chapter Four: The Russian Bania
We all know how man came into being.
Man was created when God took a bania and sweated profusely.
He dried himself off with straw and dropped the straw to earth where the Devil used the straw to create the body.
Then later, God gave man his soul. -Russian sorcerer, 1071
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Sweat
The Illustrated History and Description of the Finnish Sauna, Russian Bania, Islamic Hammam, Japanese Mushi-Buro, Mexican Temescal, and American Indian & Eskimo Sweatlodge
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by Mikkel Aaland
©1978 & 2018 All Rights Reserved
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Young women, wishing to improve their complexion after making peat or pulling flax, used to have the sweat bath, as it removed the kells, or stains and made them look nice and white. -Rev. D.B. Mulcahy, “An Ancient Irish Hot-Air Bath”
Sweat comes from the outside and falls on men like dew on the grass.—Bantu saying
Chapter 5: The Japanese Mushi-Buro
The power of this kiln bath equals
hundreds of medicines.-Yosai Aotani, 19th cent. poet
Chapter Six: The Native American Sweat Lodge
“Behave as you would in your white man’s church.” -Hoskie, a Navajo
Chapter 7 : Using & Building Your Own Sauna or Sweat Bath
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