Re: Whats a tika?

Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on January 08, 2000 at 15:39:02:

In Reply to: Whats a tika? posted by Cyane on January 08, 2000 at 00:51:49:

The Tika is the forehead spot you paint on rather than stick on ....
red, usually. It's for married ladies.

Someone asked me whether or not those spots (bindi, tika) are related
to the harquus and tattooing done in North Africa and the Middle East
.... if they're related, the relationship is pretty tenuous. I've
seen forehead spots back to 2000 BCE in Persia, and from the earliest
stuff in India, so forehead marking is very widespread and anceint.
However, the harquus and tattooing tradition seems to come from a
Syrian origin about 2500 BCE, and I don't think the original meanings
and traditions don't seem to be the same at all.

Follow-ups:

• Re: Whats a tika? Cyane 16:41:24 1/08/00 (5)
  • Re: Whats a tika? sondarya 02:35:49 1/10/00 (2)
    • Re: Whats a tika? Catherine Cartwright JOnes 14:38:39 1/10/00 (1)
      • Re: Whats a tika? Cyane 23:37:21 1/11/00 (0)
  • Re: Whats a tika? Sobia 17:05:30 1/08/00 (1)
    • Re: Whats a tika? Catherine Cartwright Jones 18:53:09 1/08/00 (0)