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admin · Site Admin Joined: 03 Nov 2005 Posts: 38

Do it here!

tattooage · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject:

according to wikipedia:

Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since Neolithic times. Mummies bearing tattoos and dating from the end of the second millennium BCE have been discovered in Xinjiang, West China. Tattooing in Japan is thought to go back to the Paleolithic era, some ten thousand years ago. Various other cultures have had their own tattoo traditions, ranging from rubbing cuts and other wounds with ashes, to hand-pricking the skin to insert dyes.

jimmy · Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject:

VERY NICE PICTURE

inkedgal · Tattoo lover Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 13

Tattoos are a very old form of body art and have been practiced from a very long time in civilized human history. The history of tattoos is very ancient and seems to be of thousands of years old and even before the birth of Christ. The recorded indication of tattoos comes from the ancient Egypt where wall paintings as old as 2000 BC have been suggesting the use of tattoos in the ancient Egyptian society.

kpow · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:52 pm Post subject:

mummies have been found with tattoos i believe.
i like to research tattoos im going to get befor i get them, not like some people now who have tat's and dont know what they mean at all.
i have a rabbit, they are my fav. animal i LOVE them they are the cutest things aside from babies....anyway i was doing some research on animal tattoos befor i gto it and this swayed my vote to definatily get my animal tattoo......
[quote:c243129f11]......Maori tribes in New Zealand believed that a tattoo of a certain animal would allow some of that animal’s qualities seep into the wearer. That belief, if not articulated, is still certainly felt by people whether they have dolphin tattoos, tiger tattoos, or those ever-popular wolf tattoos. When someone creates a scorpion tattoo they are certainly identifying themselves with some aspect of the scorpion.
And that’s what makes these tattoos special. They can be pretty and highly decorative and just simply that. Or they can be symbolic in a way that allows the person wearing them to express a part of themselves. [/quote:c243129f11]

rabbits are; swift, curious, intelligent, caustious, social animals also very cute.....if i was an animal id be a rabbit...i wouldnt mind these qualties 'seeping into me'.

kpow · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:19 pm Post subject:

this made me giggle when i read it...
[quote:d14b048378]European sailors were known to tattoo the crucifixion on their backs to prevent flogging (since it was a crime to deface an image of Christ).[/quote:d14b048378]
Laughing

sinherencia · Tattoo lover Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 34

i learned that in egypt in everyday society it was normal for a woman to get a certain fertility god tattooed on her thigh because it was supposed to give her the ability to conceive.

ebaliart · Tattoo lover Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 7

Tattoo has always played an important role in the social life of those who practiced it, and throughout history it has appeared in many guises: as a distinguishing mark of royalty; a symbol of religious devotion; a decoration for bravery in battle; a sexual lure; a pledge of love; a symbol of group identification; a sign of individuality; a punishment; and a means of marking and identifying slaves, outcasts and convicts.

Source :

tattoobody.org/index.php?page=tattoo_history

tattoobody.org/index.php?page=Tattoo-Ancient-History

tattoobody.org/index.php?page=Anthropological_Research_on_Tattoo