The goal of tattooing was never beauty; the goals were change, identity and distinction. Tattoos in their inception were used to classify and distinguish cults from other cults – and most importantly, the common people.
Tattoos were used by Scarified Nubian priests of 2,000 BC. Then it was sighted on the tattoed acolytes of the Cybele Cult of ancient Rome. In Modern Maori, it is regard as Mokos scars.
Humans had tattooed themselves as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice, enduring the physical pain of embellishment and emerging changed beings.
The act of tattooing one’s skin was a transformative declaration of power, an announcement to the world: I am in control of my own flesh. The intoxicating feeling of control derived from physical transformation had addicted millions to flesh-altering practices . . . cosmetic surgery, body piercing, bodybuilding, and steroids . . . even bulimia and transgendering. The human spirit craves mastery over its carnal shell.
Despite the ominous admonitions of Leviticus 19:28, which forbade the marking of one’s flesh, tattoos had become a rite of passage shared by millions of people in the modern
age—everyone from clean-cut teenagers to hard-core drug users to suburban housewives.
However, tattoo has been refined and blend to the taste of ‘modern’ civilization. Its craze began from eargerness to have names (one’s, a society and or organisation) inscript on some part of the body. Some go as far as having animals, a whole lot of symbol, human parts drawn on them.Some just have some simple flowers, drawings done on their bodies.
Its aftermath seems to be hundreds cases of people who reportedly cases try to ‘rub it off,’ but the things rather aturn to scars.
However, tattoo has been refined and blend to the taste of ‘modern’ civilization. Its craze began from eargerness to have names (one’s, a society and or organisation) inscript on some part of the body.
What a task to undergo!
As what is televised rotates modern age now, it is not uncommon to see people trying to copycat their favourite artistees; just for the fun of it?!
When we are civilizing, we need application of the sense of reasoning.
Jimson Jaat Taofik
