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The term temascal, as often used today in Mexico, comes from temazcalli, a Nahuatl or Classical Aztec word compounded from tletl (fire), mozcoa (to bathe), and calli (house).
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In ancient Mexico the sweat bath, or temazcalli, as the ancient Aztecs called it, reached perhaps its most elaborate and highly developed form and function.
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The term temascal, as often used today in Mexico, comes from temazcalli, a Nahuatl or Classical Aztec word compounded from tletl (fire), mozcoa (to bathe), and calli (house).
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In ancient Mexico the sweat bath, or temazcalli, as the ancient Aztecs called it, reached perhaps its most elaborate and highly developed form and function.
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The magic ritual of the temazcalli (house of the steam bath) uses medicinal plants.
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The magic ritual of the temazcalli (house of the steam bath) uses medicinal plants.
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One would think the bath would make the Indians cleanly in their persons, but it hardly seems so, for they look rather dirtier after they have been in the _temazcalli_ than before, just as the author of _A Journey due North_ says of the Russian peasants.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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_temazcalli_, which corresponds exactly to the Russian vapour-bath.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
chained_bear commented on the word temazcalli
"After harvesting (of cochineal), the insects were spread onto mats and dried in the sun for four or five days. To hurry the process along, farmers could placed the insects in ovens or heat them in steam baths called temazcalli. In each case, the cochineal shriveled up and died, losing a third of its weight in the process. It took as many as 70,000 dried insects--and sometimes more--to make one pound of dye."
Amy Butler Greenfield, A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (New York: Harper Collins, 2005), 39.
October 5, 2017