• @[email protected]
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    7 days ago

    Avoiding becoming long pork is as valid reason as any I suppose hah

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    I think a lot of it was for identification of bodies if they are otherwise disfigured in death :3… as well as other things like superstition, or marking important achievements ^^

    • CaptainBlagbird
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      47 days ago

      Also they liked to share stuff with the local people, I think getting a tattow was also a big part of that.

      • JokeDeity
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        15 days ago

        I assumed at first it was a typo, but you’ve done it twice now. What’s a tattow?