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Tattooing is the act of creating a permanent or long-lasting design on the skin. This practice is a global phenomenon. Even among the patterns that are performed in different parts of the world, similarities have also been observed.

Reasons and roles

A girl with a tattoo in New Guinea
Women usually get tattoos to be more beautiful. Sometimes they performed this act for superstitious reasons such as increasing the husband's dowry, good fortune or warding off the evil eye. The location of the tattoo depends on the reason for the tattoo. The design of flower bush or sparrow is used under the neck for beauty. The pattern of a cypress or a flower bush on the chest and a single mole on the chin or between the two eyebrows are all beautifying moles. The mole of love is engraved on the tongue, and the mole of the evil eye and the addition of the husband's seal are used below the navel. Sometimes tattooing has been used as a treatment method for sore throat (tattooing on the throat) or fear (tattooing on the penis) or bad hernia (tattooing below the navel). Heroes and quasi-heroes usually drew moles on their arms or chests in the form of lions and dragons.

Terminology
Tattoo is actually the meaning of the word tattoo in English, and the original word tatu is in Latin, which comes from the country of Tahiti located in the Pacific Ocean. This word became like this after being translated into English and "to mark something" is the original meaning of the word.

Tattoo is a word from Middle Persian language. The word tattoo is also used in Persian, which is actually a word from the English language. Tattoo appeared in the English language in the 18th century. Linguists believe that tatoo came to English from the Samoan language meaning to knock.

History
Tattooing is probably as old as painting. The world's first tattoos have been found on the body of Utsi or the Iceman, which belongs to 5300 years ago. In 1991, the frozen body of a man with 61 tattoos was found in the Alps. Otsi's tattoos were small and indistinct. Just a few dots and lines, anthropologists believe that these were the place of some kind of acupuncture for the therapeutic purposes of that time. It is surprising that such tattoos were done in the Neolithic or Bronze Age because this amount of damage to the skin required several months to repair and such An amazing knowledge for that time.

Legend has it that Captain James Cook, during his voyages in the Pacific Ocean in the late 18th century, saw various indigenous people with various tattoos. It is said that 90% of the crew of his ship had tattoos on their bodies as a reminder of their sea voyages.

Sailors of the British Navy followed this custom and tattooed souvenirs of sea voyages on their bodies. They prepared a substance known as sea ink by combining urine and gunpowder.

At the end of the 19th century, the tattoo machine was invented based on Thomas Edison's printing machine. This device was built in 1875 and has not changed much since then. It can still pierce the skin between 50 and 3,000 times per minute.

Over time, tattoos have become a way to express each person's personal story.
Tattoos in different cultures and nations
A woman with tattoos in Polynesia The Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, traditionally tattoo their faces. Today, facial tattoos are also common among the Amazigh in North Africa, the Maori of New Zealand, and the Ataial of Taiwan. Tattooing is particularly common among Polynesian peoples, and some ethnic groups in Taiwan, the Philippines, Borneo, the Mentawai Islands, Africa, North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Japan, Cambodia, New Zealand, and Micronesia.

Tattoos in religions
It is said that from the point of view of some branches of Islam, tattooing is not permissible. But in Shiism, most of the authorities are of the opinion that it is permissible. In Ayatollah Khamenei's fatwa, it is stated: "It is not permissible to tattoo if it causes significant harm to the body, or if obscene images or false content are tattooed on the body; However, if there is no harm to the body, and the written content is not haram content or views, and there is no other corruption associated with this work, there is no problem in principle; Although it is neither recommended nor desirable.

Also, referring to the book of Torah in Judaism, tattoos are not allowed. In Catholic Christianity, such practice is also prohibited

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