tattooing ve hennaeing
Posted by CAtherine Catwright JOnes on October 27, 1999 at 19:01:35:
In Reply to: Re: Broadening Melissa's Horizons ( I hope )...CCJ now a marriage counselor?! posted by Kenzi on October 27, 1999 at 03:23:35:
Islam, Judaism and Christianity have problems with tattooing...but I
think that that injunction, historically, is to set them apart from
their neighbors who DID tattoo. None of them, per se, have any
problem with henna, and henna is part of Sephardic Jewish Tradition,
and Coptic and Armenian Christian traditons. Mohammed sez henna's way
cool, so no problem there.
The Scythians, Hittites and a bunch of other folks tattoed. The ladies
who relied on Anath and Asherah (and several others), to protect their
fertility and to ward of things that suck, did tattooing, and facial
cuts, but information on that is pretty lean. There are a lot of
reasons for that. One reason is that women's history was mostly not
written down. (Godknoz we are of virtually no consequence.) Other
reason is that when a conquering group gets power, they are apt to do
a lot of "ethnic cleansing" and "re-education" which means that, if,
there were artifacts and written records of practices that are
contrary to their beliefs, they sort of vanish. There's an awful lot
of stuff about the history of hennaeing and tattooing in the past that
we just don't know ... and I doubt if we will ever know.
Damn shame! I'd love to know more about the full body floral tattoos
of Turkmenian women, and the facial tattoo and scar patterns to avert
evil (replaced by harquos)....I've found pretty good photos from up to
1930 of facial patterns from Berber, Yemen and such..I wish there were
more! Lipstick and blusher just isn't as cool as some of those
patterns! (There is a new thingie out... "Body Ink" that does a dandy
job of imitating harquus...that and waterproof eyeliner)
- Re: tattooing ve hennaeing Kenzi 23:46:06 10/27/99
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