Celtic groups were once in hennaeing regions, but waaaaaay back when

Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on February 13, 2000 at 19:40:24:

In Reply to: CuChulainn posted by dev on February 13, 2000 at 09:49:50:

I have about 6 pages of henna patterns based on Celtic art .... email
me if you want'em for St. Pat's day hennaeing. They're free.

There IS a connection with henna useing people and the Celtic woading
traditions at about 7000 - 2000 BCE around Thrace, Illyria, Anatolia
.... the same proto-Celtic loosely related folks were living in
Anatolia doing the traditional combination of henna, tattoo, harquus
and kohl, and some tribes migrated up the Danube into Northern
Europe taking their taste for body marking with them, but substituting
woad for henna, as henna absolutely wouldn't grow outside of its
climate range. So ... the traditions were at one point tangent or
related, but that was waaaaayyyyy long back. In any case ....
hennaeing Celtic patterns can be justified in a sort of really
far-fetched way. There's enough historic evidence to support a
connection, just not a very strong one. They also seem to have taken
up the Virgin-Warrior line of body marking tradition rather than the
fertility related tradition.

Follow-ups:

• Re: Celtic groups were once in hennaeing regions, but waaaaaay back when cuchulainn 16:58:14 12/10/00 (0)
• Re: Celtic groups were once in hennaeing regions, but waaaaaay back when Catherine Nielsen 19:56:54 2/13/00 (1)
  • the Battle Virgin Catherine Cartwright Jones 01:35:49 2/14/00 (0)