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The belief in the eternal youth, success, strength, and wisdom have always been related with the existence of a luxuriant, vigorous hair. Let us remember Harris’ papyrus, which is a short poem that reads:
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“My heart is full again with your love, even though only half of my temples are plaited. I run to look for you…. Oh! It has become undone. Bah! I’ll put on a wig and I’ll be OK”.
The Orbiney papyrus, in which it was retold how Anubis thanks to the beauty of her hair/wig was unfaithful to her husband with his brother. Both papyrus are dated in the XX century BC. |
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Hathor, the nature’s goddess, amazingly erotic, is called the “bushy-haired beauty”.
The old civilizations like the Greeks and Romans believed that life rested on hair, probably because it does not die after death. For example, in the museum of El Cairo you can see the Queen Tyi’s hair, from XIII century BC. |
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| The Eneida tells us how Persephone, death’s goddess, pulled out the hair from her victims. |
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In the Bible, God promises to a future mother to give birth to a fighter son, Sansón, and warns her that “The knife shall never pass over his head, because he shall be devoted to God”.
These quotes make us understand the importance that was given to the hair, wig or ornamental hairstyle, symbolizing, in more than one occasion, the necessary outfit of a woman willing to flirt sexually. |
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Traditionally, the mythological beings were represented by gorgeous hairstyles, which make them eternally younger, exempted from the passing of the years, from the old age.
Those who have the power, kings, generals, emperors, wish to look with curls that framed their faces, arranged according to divinity. |
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Caracalla, Roman emperor, arranged the hair as Alexander Magnus. Commodus, also emperor, combed his hair as if it were a divine areola and Gallienus, imitating him, splashed his hair with golden dust.
The famous ode of Ovidio tells us: “Ashamed is the mutilated cattle, ashamed is the field without corn, and the forest without foliage, and the head without hair”.
In wars, the tribute to the beaten ones was to shave their heads, as well as to the criminals and adulterous women in the Germanic villages. |
| The hair symbolizes supremacy, distinction, freedom, immortality; when lost, a feeling of debilitation, humility, degradation and disgrace. Who can affirm that this does not occur currently? |
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