Help me /his/, I swear to god early today I read that the Jerusalem

I always wondered how popular were tatoos in the middle ages in general .

>>1346012
Tattoos were a sin.

I haven't found anything about it, but the British kings George V and Edward VII both got Jerusalem cross tattoos when they visited the city.

>>1346077
no they weren't
>>1346114
this practice comes from the same root.after crusades that tattoo lost it's practical use and became just a memento or proof that you have visited the holy city.

>>1346012
Weren't tattoos a lost art until the 1700's?

>>1347052
In Europe and Kebab Middle East.

>>1346114
Gonna need a source friend.

>>1347057
The only important parts t.b.h.

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>>1346012
Found this slide on Google images, can't find the source or anything though

>>1346012
This practice is still common among the christians of the middle east.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/2009/march/tattoos-of-cross.html

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>>1347231
This makes me want to get a tattoo of the Jerusalem cross. Where should I get one? On my wrist? My bicep? Chest?

>>1346012

You don't need to source it. Nobody with a tattoo is buried in Jewish cemeteries. Not even Jews with tattoos.

>>1347417
Spleen.

>>1347417
forehead

>>1347422
>>1347570
Why not wrist? Or maybe chest to be more discrete? That might be best.

>>1346077
I thought it was only cutting yourself?

In Croatia and Bosnia, women tattooed themselves with crosses so that the Ottomans wouldn't want to touch them.

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>>1348729
forgot pic

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>>1346012
I'm not sure whether it was practised during the middle ages, but here have a picture of 17th century tattoos.

>>1347052
I think the varangian Rus learned to use tattoos from the steppe people

>>1347417
left part of your chest so it's over your heart

>>1346012
>If I fall in battle, bury me as a Christian
Of course, because if you find a dead body of a white guy with a cross on his cloths dead on a battlefield of a crusader battle your first thought is to bury him as a zoroastrian

>>1349208

Well played m8

>>1347417
>>1349140

>>1349208

There were christian arabs participating in the crusades too, anon

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>>1347417

Anus

>>1349208
>white guy
This triggers the non European

>>1349208
>burying
>Zoroastrians
Ahriman pls

>>1349962
Sky burial is still a burial

>>1349955

lol no the Crusaders generally killed every Native they came across, whether Muslim, Jewish, or Christian.

>>1347040
>no they weren't
"Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD."
Leviticus 19:28 (KJV)

>>1346012

http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/tattoo_museum/christian_tattoos.html

>>1349974

Didn't Leviticus also say not to eat shellfish or pork?

>>1349985
Yeah, I'm not denying eating that stuff is sinful either

>>1349985
Jesus said fuck it and allowed people to eat anything.