Am in awe, of the lady with the spider tattoo, of the photographer who took the photo, of the strange mythologies of spiderwoman, mother of the universe, in our world literatures... The Chin came from “out of the earth” at a place known as “Chin-lun”, somewhere in Tibet, before moving south and west, finally settling around Burma’s Chindwin River more than 1,000 years ago, before being driven up into the hills to the west. They once had a script known as “the magic of letters”, but no writings survive. telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/10637934/Just-Back-the-tattooed-women-of-Burma.html They prevented Chin women from being taken as concubines. Facial tattoos have been outlawed since 1960. Only some of the older women still have them.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:51:06 +0000
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