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Illustrations by Mark Alexander, Uproar Design
Tattooed Mummies incredibly well preserved Egyptian certain initiations, cosmology, spiritual
So where did the idea of tattooing begin? mummy named Amunet, who was a covenants and dedications. Trends
The English word tattoo is a modification high priestess of the Goddess Hathor, existed even then, for the lines, dots
of a Samoan word tutu which literally has an extensive and complex network and geometric signs were replaced with
means to strike twice. This refers to the of tattoos. Patterns of lines and dots, not symbolic portrayals of Goddesses as
traditional way of tattooing: tapping dissimilar to those on Otzi, figure into her time went on.
needles filled with ink into the layers of tattoo lingo. And there is that “elliptical” Tattooed mummies from the
the skin to change the pigmentation. tattoo resembling a diamond above her Peruvian pyramids dating back to the
Otzi the Ice Man, discovered in 1991, naval that no one knows what it means. 11th century reveal that tattoos were
is a mummified man estimated to date Quite a few female tattooed Egyptian common to males and females of that
back to the Stone Age. Researchers mummies have been discovered. It turns culture. The methodology was a kind
recorded 57 carbon tattoos in different out that only females were tattooed of skin stitching and for some reason it
mixtures of dots and lines on his spine, in ancient Egypt. Many were dancers is thought that the tattoo artists were
lower left knee and wrist. In Japan, or Priestesses with tattoos relating probably female. The meaning of these
mummies bearing tattoos and body directly to Goddess based beliefs and ornate tattoos, as with so many others,
art date back 10 thousand years. An rites. The lexicon of symbols bespoke of has yet to be fully understood.
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