Tattoo Lexicon - by Dirk-Boris Rödel
Heart or brain, gut or head - by this we mean today whether a decision is made emotionally or rationally, with the heart standing for emotions and the head or brain for reasoning freed from feelings.
Even today we still say that something "comes from the heart" when we want to express that we want to convey particularly dear and deeply felt emotions, although nowadays we of course know that reason or rationality as well as emotions arise in the brain.
The fact that the heart is regarded as the seat of emotions is simply due to the fact that it makes itself clearly felt through faster and more violent beating when strong emotions are felt - whether love, fear, anger or fright. In the past, people confused cause and effect and were unable to recognize that the heart only reacts to emotions, but does not create them itself. On the other hand, we cannot feel or perceive the brain, where all mental and emotional processes originate.
In ancient Egypt, for example, this led to the brain being regarded as relatively unimportant and dispensable. During the mummification of the deceased, all the viscera were carefully removed from the body, preserved using various means and buried together with the corpse in so-called canopic jars. Particular care was taken to mummify the heart, which was regarded as the seat of thought, feeling and also the mind.
After death, the Egyptians believed, the god of the dead, Anubis, would weigh the heart of the deceased; if it was as light as a feather, then the person had led a life without sin and was allowed to live on in the afterlife, but if it was heavy with sin, the heart was eaten by the crocodile-headed goddess Ammit.
The brain, on the other hand, apparently seemed completely unimportant to the Egyptians during this process; it was simply scraped out of the skull and thrown away before embalming.
Nevertheless, even very early cultures recognized the purpose and function of the brain, albeit in a very rustic way. During fights and battles, there were always skull injuries that were serious but not fatal. If the bones hit certain areas of the brain, the injured person was restricted in their ability to speak or move, for example. If the bone fragments were removed, these dysfunctions often improved, which led to the realization that these abilities are apparently controlled by the brain. Operations to correct brain dysfunctions were performed as far back as the Stone Age, an incredible 14,000 years ago - and in most cases, the patients even survived!
Text: Dirk-Boris Rödel
Graphic: Jonas Bachmann
Tattoo Lexicon - by Dirk-Boris Rödel
Heart or brain, gut or head - by this we mean today whether a decision is made emotionally or rationally, with the heart standing for emotions and the head or brain for reasoning freed from feelings.
Even today we still say that something "comes from the heart" when we want to express that we want to convey particularly dear and deeply felt emotions, although nowadays we of course know that reason or rationality as well as emotions arise in the brain.
The fact that the heart is regarded as the seat of emotions is simply due to the fact that it makes itself clearly felt through faster and more violent beating when strong emotions are felt - whether love, fear, anger or fright. In the past, people confused cause and effect and were unable to recognize that the heart only reacts to emotions, but does not create them itself. On the other hand, we cannot feel or perceive the brain, where all mental and emotional processes originate.
In ancient Egypt, for example, this led to the brain being regarded as relatively unimportant and dispensable. During the mummification of the deceased, all the viscera were carefully removed from the body, preserved using various means and buried together with the corpse in so-called canopic jars. Particular care was taken to mummify the heart, which was regarded as the seat of thought, feeling and also the mind.
After death, the Egyptians believed, the god of the dead, Anubis, would weigh the heart of the deceased; if it was as light as a feather, then the person had led a life without sin and was allowed to live on in the afterlife, but if it was heavy with sin, the heart was eaten by the crocodile-headed goddess Ammit.
The brain, on the other hand, apparently seemed completely unimportant to the Egyptians during this process; it was simply scraped out of the skull and thrown away before embalming.
Nevertheless, even very early cultures recognized the purpose and function of the brain, albeit in a very rustic way. During fights and battles, there were always skull injuries that were serious but not fatal. If the bones hit certain areas of the brain, the injured person was restricted in their ability to speak or move, for example. If the bone fragments were removed, these dysfunctions often improved, which led to the realization that these abilities are apparently controlled by the brain. Operations to correct brain dysfunctions were performed as far back as the Stone Age, an incredible 14,000 years ago - and in most cases, the patients even survived!
Text: Dirk-Boris Rödel
Graphic: Jonas Bachmann
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