06-05-2016, 08:58 PM
I'm not sure exactly myself, but I do want to add that the reason why circumcision was done on a specific day had to do with how well the blood would clot on that particular day, so a lot of them make sense in hindsight and from a cultural context. Because of the addition of "for the dead" in the tattoo-related one, I would imagine it had to do with a specific pagan ritual.
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