Religional Tattoos
Tattoo Designs Part II: Fairy Tattoo
by Ripple on Oct.12, 2009, under Animal tattoo, Religional Tattoos, Tattoo & Body Art, Tattoo by body parts
Maori tattoos is one kind of tribal tattoo. Like Maori tattoos, since the early 1990s, tribal tattoos have been in vogue for quite a while now. You can see them often when you walk on a street. Why? Just because they look good, unique and distinctive.
The top-1 tattoo design wemeon wears on their body is flower. Then what is second? The answer is fairy tattoo. Girls love it, not only for the beautiful color, but also the meaning of the fairy. In our mind, angel is positive and devil is negative. But fairy can be both. The fairy can flying, casting spells, foreseeing and influencing the future. Fairy tattoo are a symbol of our youth, which have a nostalgic appeal for those who remember childhood fondly and wish to keep the images of childhood part of their lives on an ongoing basis. The fairies live in wonderland and they are human-like.
In medieval societies, people thought that the fairies is related to evil and dark, mischievous and fearsome. And now, little girls love it most. They thought the fairies are cute, beautiful and so on.
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Tribal Tattoos & Tribal Tattoos Today
by Ripple on Sep.24, 2009, under Beauty Guide, Other Subject, Religional Tattoos, Tattoo & Body Art, Tattoo by body parts, Tattoo images
Maori tattoos is one kind of tribal tattoo. Like Maori tattoos, since the early 1990s, tribal tattoos have been in vogue for quite a while now. You can see often when you walk on a street. Why? Just because they look good, unique and distinctive.
Tribal tattoo usually made by black ink. The tattoos made by black ink can be hold up very well and doesn’t fade as fast as other colors.
Tribal tattoos is thick, black curving lines and interlocking patterns. It’s easier to design your own tribal tattoo than others. The designs are very popular. You neednot to spend a hard time to find a good tattoo artist that can design your tattoo if you don’t want a specific or traditional tribal.
But it is difficult to remove them if you donot like it. The tattoo removal machine is not working very good on those large patches of black ink. If you got a normal tattoo, you can covering it up with another tattoo. But tribal tattoos is not. Cause the line of tribal tattoo is very thick and black curving. If you want to get a specific tribe tattoo of a specific tribe, it is hard. Cause not every tattooer know the tribal tattoo and the tribal culture well.
What are tattoos used for in tribal communities? There several functions: identification, social status, rite of passage, magic, healing and protection. Each tribe or family has their own tattoo motifs. The tattoos read like a book: they tell the origin and social hierarchy of the person who wears them. You can identify the tribal by their tattoos. The tribal tattoos shows the social status of one tribal. People with a big tattoo usually has a higher rank. Tribal tattoo is a rite of passage, getting a tattoo is part of the ritaul that turns a boy into a man, a girl into a woman. In some tribes the boy gets assigned a totem animal during his rights of passage. By tattooing that animal it is believed that the wearer inherits some of the powers of his totem animal.
Today, tribal tattoos are not generally speaking strongly associated with any particular tirbe and are usually stripped of their social meaning. People wear them just cause they like the design or thought the design is different from others.
There are some traditional tribal tattoos
1. Borneo Tattoos Berneo tattoo is an important form of body modification and people believed that the tattoos can protect them against pain and diseases.
2. Polynesian Tattoos The most famous Polynesian tattoo styles are the Maori, Marquesan, Tahitian, Samoan and Hawaiian styles.
3. Celtic tattoos
4. Native American Tattoos
5. Aztec Tribal Tattoos
6. Chinese Tribal tattoos The history of the Chinese tattoo is not very interesting, but there are several ethnic minorities in China with a strong tattoo tradition. The most important tribes are those of the Dai, Drung and Li.
7. Haida Tattoo
Maori Tattoo Part V: Today
by Ripple on Sep.23, 2009, under Beauty Guide, Health Care, Religional Tattoos, Tattoo & Body Art, Tattoo Machine & Guns, Tattoo Supplies, Tattoo by body parts, Tattoo images
In Maori culture, Maori tattoos were a show of strength, courage and status. And they mostly was put on the face. Maori tattoo for men stopped being popular somewhere in the middle of the 19th century. Maori tattoo for women continued throughout the 20th century. The Maori culture and traditions are having a revival since the 1990s and the traditional Maori tribe tattooing is all but extinct, so it have made a comeback and popular again, including the old tattoo equipment like chisels.
But today’s Maori tattoos are different from the old one. Modern Maori tattoos are not just can found on the face, it was shown on the body more and more. But the traditional Maori tattoo designs have a universal and timeless appeal.
If you want to get a Maori tattoo or a tattoo design in the Maori style, find a tattoo artist that has experience with Maori tattoos and knows about these issues and ask him to design one for you. There are some celebrities got Maori tattoos, such as Robbie Williams, Ben Harper, Mike Tyson.
Maori Tattoo Part IV: The Ritual & Equipment
by Ripple on Sep.23, 2009, under Religional Tattoos, Special tattoo, Tattoo & Body Art, Tattoo Machine & Guns, Tattoo Supplies, Tattoo accessories, Tattoo by body parts
When you search some information about tattoos, tattooing. There are millions of website was shown on Google. Click one and get in, you will find some words like that ” this website is for people above 18″ or “People who is younger than 18 is not allowed to signin our website”. So it means that normally tattoo is for the adult, not adolescence. If you want to get a tattoo and your age is not up to 18, you must get the permit of your parents or custodian. But Maori tattooing is not. It usually start at adolescence ( at the age of 13 to 15). Maori people get it to celebrate important events throughout life. The first tattoo marks the transition from childhood to abulthood and was done durying a series of rites and rituals. Tattoo ar was an important part of the Maori culture. People without tattoos were considered to be without status or worth.
Be the end of the 19th century, tattoo equipment like tattoo needles began to set in. Now, there are lots of tattoo equipment: tattoo machines/tattoo guns, tattoo needles, tattoo grip, tattoo tube, tattoo motor,tattoo tips, tattoo ink and so on. We usually tattooed by needles but Maori peole not. Instead of needles, Maori pelple used knives and chisels(uhi), and the ink was applied by means of incisions. The uhi was made from an albatross bone. Tattooing by making incisions with a chisel was a painful process, but traditional Maori tattoo were meant to be more then decorative. Maori tattoos were a show of strength, courage and status. Both men and women were tattooed, though women substantially less ( maybe because there was less of a need for them to show courage) and on other places (usually the lips and chin).
The ink Maori people used is also different from us. We use colorful ink but the color of Maori tattoo is simple. One was made from an organism that is half vegetable, half caterpillar (the caterpillar is infected by a certain kind of fungus that starts growing out of its head, killing the caterpillar). The other is darker, black tattoo ink, which was made of burned wood.
Maori Tattoo Part III: The legand
by Ripple on Sep.22, 2009, under Other Subject, Religional Tattoos, Special tattoo, Tattoo & Body Art, Tattoo Knowledge, Tattoo Machine & Guns, Tattoo Supplies, Tattoo by body parts, Tattoo images
We did not know the precise history of the Maori tattoo, but we do know the legendary source of it and its legand. The legand talks about the love between two people: Mataora and Niwareka. Mataora, a young warrior of aboveground, fell in love with Niwareka, the princess of the underworld. And Niwareka too. They are together soon. Then Mataora ask Niwareka come aboveground and marry him. She agreed. But Mataora not treat Niwareka well, so she went back to her father’s kingdom when Mataora mistreated her.
Eventually, Mataora sick with guilt and his face paint smudged, then he decide to made his way down to the underworld to try to win her back. He succeeded. Before they go aboveground, Niwareka’s father taught Mataora the art of Maori tribe tattooing. Mataora brought ta moko (Maori tattoo) as well as other skills he had picked up in the underworld back with him and the ideas caught on. So Mataora become the father of the Maori tattoo, he was called Te Puni Maori Chief.
