The Honorable Art of Tattoo
The art of Tattoo has been around since 12,000 years before Christ and has gone through many years' of judgment by people of different races and cultures. This art form spanned many different cultures with many different meanings and is being transformed today. The outlook of tattoo turned from honorable and elegant to deviant and wrong and is now coming back as an honorable and memorable art form for the people to express their feelings about certain subjects or persons. Tattoo has been used to ward off demons and spirits in early Japan and China. In ancient times, honorable and well respected men told of unforgettable journeys, battles, and even showed memorials to lost loves with tattoo, still today men and women decorate their whole body with tattoos in the same manner.1 Evidence exists of the art of Tattoo used in many ways, from religious stature to eroticism, 12,000 years before the birth of Christ. At first, tattoo was demeaning to the people until they sought education about the art, found it to be a respectable way praise their gods or goddesses in art and after a few years of criticism they concluded to accept it as a part of their ritual practices. Tattooing quickly became a part of m
6 http://www.muohio.edu/~taylorw1/earlyamerica.htmlx 4 http://www.muohio.edu/~taylorw1/Asian.htmlx In Ancient Egypt tattoo, symbolized fertility, caste, and marriage. Only women in this culture could wear tattoos because law forbade men to wear tattoo of any sort. Three female Egyptian mummies gave evidence that tattoo was used in religious and ceremonial rituals. 5 Egyptians used the dash-dot method, which was contrived from the Nubians, just a few thousand miles away. The Nubians used abstract geometrical designs in blue or blue-black ink for their tattoos; the Egyptians used the same style but put meaning behind their ink. 1 http://www.muohio.edu/~taylorw1/culture.htmlx 2 (1969) "Tattoos of the Jomon People" 5 http://www.muohio.edu/~taylorw1/Egyptian.htmlx
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