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 With the natives Americas, Africa and Asia are Piercings in the Ohrläppchen, the nose wings and the nasal septum, which delivers lips and the genital organs. The decoration of these cultures was manufactured made of wood, quartz, Perlmutt, clay/tone, horn and bone and simple metals. First ear holes are in Egypt about 1,550 v. Chr. demonstrably. The dead mask of the old-Egyptian Pharao Tutanchamun shows this with widened ear holes. Also with Buddha-Statuen or Relikten of the Aztecs increased ear holes are represented.
With the Mursi in the south of Ethiopia durchstochene or cut and particularly far stretched Piercings in the lips and Ohrläppchen belong to the ideal of beauty. The larger the plate is, the more reputation applies for the woman. Today the failed decoration serves also consciously as tourist attraction [1]. In India many women carry traditionally for plug in the Ohrläppchen and the nose wing. In accordance with the hinduistischen faith children in the context of the Karnavedha ritual ear holes are stung, in order to protect it against diseases.
In the Thai city Phuket takes place since 1825 annually the Vegetarian festival. During the first nine days of the ninth monthly of the Chinese calendar the numerous participants shift in the context of a God swearing to in Trancezuständeund sting themselves during a Prozession of swords, branches, steel-pipes or everyday life articles with partly very large diameters by cheeks, tongue or other body places. They function as medium of the nine protection spirit and during the ritual as possessing those are regarded.
With the sun dance it concerns a ceremony of different Indian trunks of the American prairie and Plains, with which the dancers the skin at chest or back puncture themselves and would drive through with cords connected stakes. The cords are bound to a tree, around which the Indians dance four days long from sunrise to sunset without shade, food and water. This tradition was taken up by the movement that decaying primitive under the designation Body
suspension.
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