Origin

Tattooing was not always a trend. It was a ceremony.

In The Ritual of Tattooing: A Forgotten Heritage, Simone "Randagio" Righi, a tattoo artist and symbolist with decades of international experience, guides you on a journey where the skin ceases to be a surface and becomes memory, identity, and transformation.

Through ancestral cultures, from Polynesia and the Māori world to Ancient Egypt, the author explores tattooing as a sacred language, a system of symbols that are not chosen for aesthetics but recognized when a part of one's personal history is ready to change.

The book connects history, symbolism, and Hermetic disciplines, delving into universal principles such as correspondence, vibration, and polarity, and proposes a reading of the body as a map of consciousness through the seven vortices or chakras. It also includes simple practices of presence and breathing to align these centers and live the ritual from a place of coherence.

In its most intimate chapters, Simone Randagio shares observations and real-life cases from ritual sessions, reflecting on conscious pain as a threshold, the mind as creator, and tattooing as a pact with oneself. He even addresses Parkinson's disease from a human and experiential perspective, as part of a broader discourse on body, will, and meaning.

This is not a fashion manual or a catalog of designs. It is an invitation to remember that when the symbol is tattooed with intention, the skin can become a witness to rebirth.