Help me /his/, I swear to god early today I read that the Jerusalem Cross was tattood on Crusading knights as a way to say "If I fall in battle, bury me as a Christian"
But now I can't find any source saying that and I think I'm having a stroke. Is it some other symbol that was used for that? Pease help me out
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.
>>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.
>>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
>>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
>>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.
>>1348729
forgot pic
>>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
>>1349208
There were christian arabs participating in the crusades too, anon
>>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.
