sacred and ancient body modifications in present day.

Wounded war victum ? Hatiian child wounded? No actually this young boy is living out a tribal custom that has been carried out by the villages and peoples of the Sudan for longer than recorded time.
The ritual is preformed as a ritual right of passassage that can last several days. The scars are cut in most commonly lines and dashes. There are many ways the cutting can be preformed from sharpend or filed down through razor blades. It is preformed usually inside a hut .
This particular one was preformed by the boys father and a shaman of sorts. This is the beginning as he grows older depending on the tribe and location of his village he could undergo many Moore rituals and possible teeth filing , in attempt to look Moore like a crocodile.

Many view this as extreme or sick. There are ethical conserns on pining a child Down and cuting designs into his flesh.there are also concerns of non steral conditions of witch these rituals are preformed in. What are your concerns? Are they put in place by the society of witch you were raised? Absalutly they were. I agree it isn't a social norm ......but it is from a strong culture. The boys father pind him Down and his did the same and his father to him and so on and so on until before time.

I don't thank as an American I could pin my son down and scar him like this without his consent for it. But then again I'm sure painful yes but that the boy did volunteer for the procedure. If I whole heartedly beloved it could save my village,ward of crocks and give my son long life why wouldent I participate?

Well I don't live in the Sudan . I have been to Africa wich inspired my ears to be stretched . But in a true western way I practiced an ancient right and have had 2 scars cut into my body. One a right of spiritual passage. I have a dipiction of the all seeing eye of god cut into my sternum. It was very painful and took a month and a half to heal. The procedure was far different from a small unclean mud hut. Cheyne the man that preformed the procedure was very skilled and used amazingly sterile conditions. He used a stencil of the exact image on my skin to make a blood lineing with a small scalple and then we.my back over it with a larger one to cut in the design deeper to cause it to scar and lift.

Now yes this is far different from it being the same process of my father pining me down. From it being the social norm but there are similarities. I had to pick out a man willing to preformed the write of passage. One who knew the art. The fact that it was a religious passage for myself. These are amazing similarities I see and connections I feel.

I wil say that we have mutated the practices of scarification in the west. Examples? Look no further than my right arm. I have taken an iconic symbol from the harry poter world called the dark mark, lord voldimorts symbol on the arms of his deatheaters and had it scared into my flesh. To extreme for some and to far for most but I believe it is beautiful. When I see the raised skin and pink flesh thru the tattoos that cover I've parts of it I feel ecstatic. Like a feeling no tattoo not drug or feeling I have ever gotten. One that links to the primal side of the human psyche , the god fearing, superstitious side. It is amazing and great to be part of that world to be primal to be MODERN PRIMITIVE.

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