History and culture

The conch piercing is fashionable today among all aspects of Western culture taken before, where it is especially during the 1990s next to the tragus - Rook - Snug - Daith and - Helix Piercing as a rare variant of the ear hole established. Es ist zwar auch als traditionelles Piercing bei einigen Volksgruppen bekannt, besitzt aber deutlich weniger historische Ursprünge als das weitaus stärker verbreitete Lobe-Piercing durch das Ohrläppchen . Although it is a traditional piercing in some ethnic groups are also known but has significantly less than the historical origins of much more widespread praise piercing through the ear lobe .

South Pacific

Aus Überlieferungen von der südpazifischen Cookinsel Mangaia sind Darstellungen mit Ohr-Modifikationen bekannt, die dem Conch-Piercing ähnlich sind. From the traditions of the South Pacific Cook Islands Mangaia modifications are representations with ear-known to the Conch piercing are similar. So zeigt eine Zeichnung aus dem Buch Le troisème voyage de Cook von John Rickman aus dem Jahr 1785, über die dritte Südseereise des Entdeckers James Cook , einen Insel-Bewohner mit entsprechendem Ohrschmuck. Sun shows a drawing from the book troisème Le voyage de Cook, John Rickman in 1785, on the third Pacific voyage of explorer James Cook , an island resident with appropriate earrings. Zudem weisen hölzerne Figuren von den Cookinseln aus dem späten 18./ frühen 19. In addition, wooden figures show the Cook Islands from the late 18th / early 19th Jahrhundert Löcher in den Ohrmuscheln auf. Bei den Figuren handelt es sich jeweils um den sogenannten „Gott der Fischer“. Century holes in the ears on. In the figures, it is in each case to the so-called "God of fishermen." Sie sollen von Fischern für einen erfolgreichen Fang mit auf See genommen worden sein. They will for a successful catch on with its lake have been taken by fishermen.

Congo

Members of the Mangbetu with jewelry in the inner ear

Jewels in the ear edge, such as the helix piercing, or dilated holes in the earlobes are part of the cultural identity of many ethnic groups in Africa. Jewelry by the inner ear, as it corresponds to the modern inner conch piercing is, but only by the ethnicity of the Mangbetu in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. It pegs of ivory or bone monkeys in the perforated ear cups were used. Today, this form of body modification in the Mangbetu is related to but still only rarely.

India

By members of the Gorakhnathis, a grouping of Shiva sadhu, a form of inner conch piercing is known to be used in particularly large earrings as a symbol of faith in the ears. This is the so-called Kanphati, carried out as part of an initiation ritual and literally means "split ear" means (kan of hindi कन, ear and फूटना phu: split tna,). The modern Conch piercing is therefore also called sadhu piercing or piercing Kanphati. Both names have been established in the early 1990s by the piercer and non-fiction author Blake Perlingieri from San Francisco.

The Hindu Gorakhnathis are the only group with such a ritual jewelry. The Kanphati to decline to Goraksha, the founder of Hatha Yoga. At the ceremony, a guru slits on both ears with a knife with two edged sword and set pins from neem wood cut into the column. After healing, the pins are replaced by rings. The Kanphati is a symbol of the faith of the yogi and lead to the institution of special powers.After the initiation ritual is the wearing of the rings in the conversation, eating, or provided in prayer. The traditional jewelry pieces are made of Gorakhnathis including agate, glass, or the horn of the rhinoceros.

 

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