Tattooing FUNCTIONS / SYMBOLS: An old tradition in north africa

The function of tattooing is historically manifold among Amazighs: it can be protective and ornamental, but also identity or medical: in the Sahel, intervening midway between the outside and inside of the body, it was lent to him. healing virtues: headache, arthritis ...

Every detail, every motif has its own symbolic in the Berber tattoo

• The point symbolizes the home, which is in the center center of the house
• The crescent moon the matter that is born, grows up and dies.
• The spiral symbolizes eternal harmony
• The circle represents the absolute.
• Palm trees tattooed on the front of Berber women invoke the mother goddess
• The first vertical line symbolizes god and life, as well as the first tool planted in earth by man
• The two features symbolize the duality between the good and the bad that sleep in each
• The square is the representation of the house
• Two superimposed squares symbolize God's fight against curse and darkness
• The rosette, composed of triangles: the one with the tip upwards symbolizes fire and virility, while the triangle with the tip down represents water and femininity
• The plus (+ sign) symbolizes the eye of God, the star whose light guides the man in the night
• The cross symbolizes the two legs or the two arms of the man.
• Other symbols: palm palm, chevrons, fir pectins, life lines