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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 1105759" data-attributes="member: 1125">Okay as I see it Tattoo motif have two types - real objects and geometric designs.Polynesian tattoo used both and so along with the lines, whorls and other patterns were also depictions of fish, insects, people and birds.Ergo all the spells with associations with real objects (the 'animal' spells etc) could be covered by depiction of said animal (eg cats grace = cats head tattoo, centipede = summon swarm). You could then start combining symbols for other spells (eg a man with a fish head = Breath water).Anything left over at the end just apply a geometric design (eg a circle enclosed in a ring with five lines radiating out from its edge)Malachi Legba (see below) has his right arm intricately tattoed with a mixture of geometric designs and depictions of fish etc. Taken as a whole it is a celestial map which means that by pointing to a given star or the sun on the horizon he can then find his way home by following the symbols)</blockquote>