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redpillklaudiaspiechowicz · 3 years

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Tattoos

“Humans have marked their bodies with tattoos for thousands of years. These permanent designs—sometimes plain, sometimes elaborate, always personal—have served as amulets, status symbols, declarations of love, signs of religious beliefs, adornments and even forms of punishment. Joann Fletcher, research fellow in the department of archaeology at the University of York in Britain, describes the history of tattoos and their cultural significance to people around the world, from the famous " Iceman," a 5,200-year-old frozen mummy, to today’s Maori.“

“In terms of tattoos on actual bodies, the earliest known examples were for a long time Egyptian and were present on several female mummies dated to c. 2000 B.C. But following the more recent discovery of the Iceman from the area of the Italian-Austrian border in 1991 and his tattoo patterns, this date has been pushed back a further thousand years when he was carbon-dated at around 5,200 years old. Following discussions with my colleague Professor Don Brothwell of the University of York, one of the specialists who examined him, the distribution of the tattooed dots and small crosses on his lower spine and right knee and ankle joints correspond to areas of strain-induced degeneration, with the suggestion that they may have been applied to alleviate joint pain and were therefore essentially therapeutic. This would also explain their somewhat 'random' distribution in areas of the body which would not have been that easy to display had they been applied as a form of status marker.”

“Tattooing has been practiced across the globe since at least Neolithic times, as evidenced by mummified preserved skin, ancient art and the archaeological record. Both ancient art and archaeological finds of possible tattoo tools suggest tattooing was practiced by the Upper Paleolithic period in Europe. However, direct evidence for tattooing on mummified human skin extends only to the 4th millennium BC. The oldest discovery of tattooed human skin to date is found on the body of Ötzi the Iceman, dating to between 3370 and 3100 BC. Other tattooed mummies have been recovered from at least 49 archaeological sites, including locations in Greenland, Alaska, Siberia, Mongolia, western China, Egypt, Sudan, the Philippines and the Andes. These include Amunet, Priestess of the Goddess Hathor from ancient Egypt (c. 2134–1991 BC), multiple mummies from Siberia including the Pazyryk culture of Russia and from several cultures throughout Pre-Columbian South America.“

Personally I chose tattoos as the thing that activates your powers because in a lot of sci-fi oriented media tattoos are often accosiated with magic so superpowers wouldn’t be a stratch from that. Also tattoos are and easy and modern thing all my characters could have on their bodies without sticking out too much or it looking out of place in the modern world. A simple tattoo would have them all be connected into a community of sorts, of people that have the knowledge of these superpowers and the ability to use them. I also already though of some ideas for the tattoo and decided I want the design to be really simple because I don’t want to repeat the same thing that happened in Tangled with the song activating the Sun powers in that story but it was never explained how did someone figure out a very specific song for this very specific flower that only existed by chance. Making the design super easy and something someone might actaully have on their body in the world right now would make more sense in my opinion because then you can make the guess these powers were discovered a long time ago simply by chance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tattooing

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tattoos-144038580/

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