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Tattoos originated over 5000 years ago, and appear everywhere nowadays. Tattoos are found on virtually every body part, including the arms, legs, feet, hands, neck, face and head! It is said that at least 1 in 7 North Americans have a Tattoo!

Until 1991, it was widely believed that tattoos originated from the Polynesian people on islands scattered throughout the South Pacific. From here it spread through Polynesia then to New Zealand to the South and then Samoa to the North. Some say that the word Tattoo got its name from the Polynesian word "Tatau" - Meaning balance or fitting, while others say it comes from the sound the hand tool and sticks make which the Polynesian people use to make tattoos.

But in 1991 "Otzi - The Ice man" was found on a mountain between Austria and Italy. He is the oldest human ever found and is 5300 years old! When he was found all his organs, fingers, toes and skin were still intact. The strangest find on the corpse however was the 59 tattoos he had all over his body. Some say that these tattoos are the markings of a Sharman - A religious leader, and that the corpse was a human sacrifice.

Today tattoos are done by means of a tattoo gun. The tattoo gun was originally invented by Thomas Edison (Same guy who invented the electric light bulb!) in 1876 and was called the "Autographic Printer" - an engraving device. A few years later, Samuel O'Reilly adapted the machine to inject ink into the skin. Later a tube and needle system was patented to provide an ink reservoir.

Tattoo ink is derived from metals. Red and Black colour comes from iron oxides. Yellow comes from cadmium and green comes from chromium. Because tattoo ink contains metal, MRI scans may cause tattoos to have a burning or stinging sensation.

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The inhabitants of Northern Britain were known as the Celts. The Celts glorified the power of life and life's creators where both the male and female principles were equal and in harmony. For the Celts, life it's self was the driving power of the universe. This power reveals the highest wisdom and everything in it is divine in its varieties. Death was just a subordinate role. Death was just a short interruption in the forever ongoing and always changing cycle of life.

This is the reason that most Celtic Cross Tattoos are seen as precious ornaments, complicated and twisted knots and spiral motives done mostly in black. These images and symbols required a very high understanding of mathematics and geometry and were used by Irish Monks in the early middle ages. Between the 4th and 10th century after Christ, the Monks used them for drawings in books and they were also found on monuments. These monuments were mostly made out of stone, and were the so called "Celtic Crosses"

Faithful to the Celtic belief, the Celtic Crosses symbolizes the unity of the opposite spheres: UP and DOWN for heaven and earth and LEFT and RIGHT for male and female. The CIRCLE in the centre represents the perfectly closed form and divine symbol for the forever ongoing cycle.