Whang-od Oggay is a 104 year old Phillipino woman who lives in Buscalan, a mountain village in the Kalinga province of the Philippines, about 15 hours from the capital of Manila, and she is single handedly keeping the tattoo tradition of the Butbut peoples alive. She is the last of the mambabatok, which is the […]
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Viking Rune Tattoos in the 21 Century
In the viking age, runes were used as a practicality. Some carvings were inscribed in portable objects or as a type of decoration, similar to what we might call graffiti. Many though, were carved into stones and displayed. They were intended to remember notable people, by amplifying the good deeds they did well on earth […]