Egyptian patterns,love, poetry, tattoos and henna

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: I've been working through a lot of New Kingdom Egyptian material in : regards to henna .... (henna is pretty much absent on living women : before 1390 BCE in Egypt) : : Some of the lovely suprising stuff is that Egyptian female musicians, : poetesses, singers, dancers, entertainers and sex workers seem to have : been the primary ones doing bod mod (henna and tattoo).... I've found : thighs tattooed with Bes on women entertainers and musicians from : 1500 to 1200 BCE, and henna embellished feet and fingertips of women : musicians from 1390 to 900 BCE . I've got a rant with their poetry, : tattoo patterns and such in four part harmony if you're curious ..... : email me. It's free, just be cool about copyright. (I've also got gifs : of the Bes tattoos for lady musicians if you need such ... and other : Egyptian patterns adapted for henna. Email me if you want'em) I can't : post all this lot because it's another rant longer than would be : suitable for posting..... : But here's a taste of the tattoed, hennaed ladies' work from 3000 : years ago: : a poem from the Egyptian songstresses from 1100 BCE who were fairly : apt to be hennaed......(as opposed to other ladies) It's important to : know here, that wild gooses with their long necks (think : Freudian) represent men, and catching geese is the work of a young : girl who is a sex worker.....who has found she has feelings for the : man she is supposed to regard as her client, and is a little : embarrassed to admit what's happened to the woman who is her employer : (the mother) (pimp?) and owner of her house: Translated by Ezra Pound : and Noel Stock : "The shrill of the wild goose : Unable to resist : The temptation of my bait. : While I, in a tangle of love, : Unable to break free, : Must watch the bird carry away my nets. : And when my mother returns, loaded with birds, : finds me empty-handed, : What shall I say? : That I caught no birds? : that I myself was caught in your net?" : : Another: Anonymus from 1100 BCE ... translated by John Foster : "Lo where she come to you, bright with her thousand pleasures! : Fragrance spreads like a floodtide : Drowning the eyes, and the head whirls." : More: from (Ms.?) Anonymus, 1100 BCE ... translated by John Foster : "O then, a man big with love could come anytime : find her house welcoming, open, : Discover the couch decked with closewoven bedclothes, : and a lovely young lady restless among them!-" : and yet another, translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock : "Even when the birds rise : Wave mass on wave mass in great flight : I see nothing, I am blind : Caught up as I am and carried away : Two hearts obedient in their beating : My life caught up with yours : Your beauty the binding." : Quotes from "World Poetry", Quality Paperback Book Club, 1998 : As if it would suprise you that ladies who wrote these would have : hennaed fingertips! : Has Madonna, with her hennaed hands, ever done better? Where was MTV : in 1000 BCE?

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