The Original Tattoos

Monday, November 14, 2011

The Spread of Tattoos in the World

Historically, the Egyptians became the mother of the world's mushrooming Tattoos. In ancient times the Egyptians known as a strong nation, because their expansion towards other nations make tattoo art is also widespread kesetiap country, as to the Greek, Persian, and Arabic to all Asia.
Wen Shen tattoo or Rajah began reaching China around 2000 BC taon. Wen Shen said to mean "body acupuncture". please note, just like the Romans, the ancient Chinese people wear tattoos to signify that someone had been imprisoned. While in China alone, there are tattoo culture in some ethnic minority, which has been inherited by their ancestors, such as ethnic Drung, Dai, and Li, but only the women who come from ethnic Li and Drung, who has obtained the habit of tattooing the face.
 

Historical customs Drung ethnic Tattoo appear places around the end of the dynastic emperor Ming (about 350 years ago), when they were attacked by a group of other ethnic groups and at the time they arrested some women from ethnic Drung to serve as slaves. In order to avoid the occurrence of rape, the women are then tattooed their faces to make them look less attractive in the eyes of the kidnapper. Although it is now the women of the Drung ethnic minorities is no longer in a state threatened by attacks from other ethnic minorities, yet they still continue to maintain these customs as a symbol of the strength of maturity. The girls from ethnic minorities Drung tattooed face as they aged between 12 and 13 years as a symbol of self maturation. There are several different explanations, why the women are tattooed face. Some people say, that people assume Drung ethnic women who had tattoos look more beautiful and the Drung ethnic Adam will not marry a woman who does not have a tattoo on his face.
In Indonesia Mentawai people Mentawai islands, Dayak tribes of Borneo, and Sumba in NTB tribe, had known since ancient Tattoos. Mentawai tribe for example, his tattoos are not made in vain. Before making tattoo done, there Enegaf Harvest alias initiation ceremony conducted in Puturkaf Uma (traditional house gallery Mentawai tribe). The ceremony was led by Sikerei (shaman). After the ceremony is completed, then the process was implemented Tattoos. Tattoos, for the traditional Mentawai people, has many meanings, signs, and symbols. Degrees a person can be seen from the tattoos on his body. Rajah also can show a person's ethnicity, how many families, as well as the achievements he has accomplished. Tattoos Mentawai places that looks static and strange proportions that a wealth of self for the wearer.
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