Till now, there is no agreement on origins of body art. The causes of making tattoos on humans vary from nation to nation. Generally, they could be categorized as follows.
Totems
In the view of culture, tattoos are seen as totem marks. In ancient times, it’s believed that people originate from some animals, plants and other objects which have special genetic relationships with them. Different people regard different animals, plants and other objects as their ancestors or guardian gods and they used to paint the worship images on their bodies as permanent marks. As time is passing by, different people in one nation tend to worship only one object which become s a national symbol. For instance, one tribe in the south Australia take kangaroos as totems which symbolize the whole tribe.
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