LL-L: "Bath culture" LOWLANDS-L, 12.MAY.2000 (01) [E/S]

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From: Mike Adams [abrigon at yahoo.com]
Subject: Bathing

I know from my experiances in Alaska, that hot springs were almost
sacred as a meeting place, also a place for people to exchange things,
like genes..
Any particular deity in European myth who was the deity of springs/hot
and other wise as well as what other areas were they patron of as well.

Mike
Alaska

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From: Andrew Eagle [K27 at compuserve.com]
Subject: LL-L: "Loanwords" LOWLANDS-L, 11.MAY.2000 (04) [E]

Ron wrate:
<sned>
Original North European cultures certainly were not known for their
obsession
with bathing.  Most houses consisted of one all-purpose room.  If you could
not bathe outside, you would put a tub into the house on bath day (however
frequently that would come around).  In many cases this continued when
houses
and apartments had more than one room, until well into the 20th century
<sned>

Soonds faimiliar tae me. A mynd whan we uisst tae veesit ma grannie an
granfaither. Thay stayed in a tennement athoot rinnin watter. Bath day wis
aye a tub afore the fire. This wis at the hin end o the saxties , stairt o
the sieventies. An A aye s till conseeder masel yung! (A wis yunger nor ten
year auld at the time. - The cooncil rehoosed us whiles.) A haed tae gang
twa stories doun the stair for tae tae tak a pish in  a wee widden hut in
the yaird afore A coud gang tae ma bed.
Nou is 'at no braw street cred?

Andy

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