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[[Electrical Play]] above the waist (mainly in the torso, but not exclusively) can interfere with the body's natural electrical impulses to the heart. All electrical players must be aware of this risk. Electrical play should be done with EXTREME care, or not done at all, to people with heart trouble and especially pacemakers!


This class of [[Tattoo|tattoos]], often referred to as '''Borneo Roses''', are based on the stylized flower designs popular among the tribal peoples of [[Borneo]].
A reader wrote in with the following clarification:


[[Damian McGrath]] adds:
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"Actually, no actual 'electrical impulses' flow from the body to the heart that have anything to do with maintaining a heartbeat. The heart beats on its own (even for many hours if removed and kept in Ringers') and that heartbeat rhythm originates spontaneously from the pacemaker (sinoatrial node) which is part of the heart itself.
The danger from electrical currents passing through the thoracic region is that you will interrupt the communication between this natural pacemaker, the parts of the heart that communicate the signals around the heart, and the heart itself (because actually all of these will "beat" on their own, unfortunately at their own rhythms) causing the heart to beat and contract randomly in all odd directions in different parts (fibrillation), meaning it really can't pump anything at all (and that's not a true "heart attack" either).
As a point of interest, this is the principle defribrillators work on: contrary to popular opinion, they can't do a thing to re-start your heart. What they actually do stop it all at once, in the hope that your natural pacemaker will reassert control and get a regular heartbeat and contractions going again.


:''On the deltoid region of the shoulders and on the breasts, a rosette or star design is found. It seems in the highest degree probable that the rosette is derived from the eye in the dog pattern, and it is consequently of some interest to find that the name now given to the rosette pattern is that of the fruit of a plant which was introduced into Borneo certainly within the last fifty or sixty years... its Kayan name is jalaut. We have here a good example of the gradual degradation of a design leading to a loss of its original significance and even of its name, another name, which originated probably from some fancied resemblance between pattern and object, being applied at a subsequent date...''
Not to be picky, but I wanted you to know so that if you feel like it you can change it to get the details correct (that it'll screw up the heart itself, not any kind of heart-brain connection) so that the rest of your highly valuable BMErisks won't be disregarded by someone who picks out this detail as incorrect and thinks the rest may be as well."
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== Meaning ==
== Entries related to this risk ==
Borneo roses are one of the most misinterpreted tattoos out there. Its actual name is the "bunga teruong" and it's most present in the Iban tribe of Borneo. Each part of the design symbolizes something, but the overall design is supposed to guard the wearer from evil spirits, and it always to be done in pairs either on the shoulders, back, chest, hands or buttocks, to protect both sides of the person from evil. Tattooing different parts of the body with the bunga teruong does not change it's meaning, back in the tribal days, you'd tattoo a certain part of your body depending on what you were, whilst most men would have their shoulders tattooed, headhunters would tattoo their hands. As for the spiral, it's meant to symbolize the life cycle and is taken from the spiral design you see on the belly of a tadpole, and the number of petals, there is no actual meaning to the number of petals, different villages of the Iban or Dayak tribe (only two tribes that had the bunga teruong) would have a different number of petals in their design.


== Related Articles ==
* [[Electrical Play]]
* [[Borneo]]

Latest revision as of 04:50, 17 September 2023

Electrical Play above the waist (mainly in the torso, but not exclusively) can interfere with the body's natural electrical impulses to the heart. All electrical players must be aware of this risk. Electrical play should be done with EXTREME care, or not done at all, to people with heart trouble and especially pacemakers!

A reader wrote in with the following clarification:

"Actually, no actual 'electrical impulses' flow from the body to the heart that have anything to do with maintaining a heartbeat. The heart beats on its own (even for many hours if removed and kept in Ringers') and that heartbeat rhythm originates spontaneously from the pacemaker (sinoatrial node) which is part of the heart itself.

The danger from electrical currents passing through the thoracic region is that you will interrupt the communication between this natural pacemaker, the parts of the heart that communicate the signals around the heart, and the heart itself (because actually all of these will "beat" on their own, unfortunately at their own rhythms) causing the heart to beat and contract randomly in all odd directions in different parts (fibrillation), meaning it really can't pump anything at all (and that's not a true "heart attack" either).

As a point of interest, this is the principle defribrillators work on: contrary to popular opinion, they can't do a thing to re-start your heart. What they actually do stop it all at once, in the hope that your natural pacemaker will reassert control and get a regular heartbeat and contractions going again.

Not to be picky, but I wanted you to know so that if you feel like it you can change it to get the details correct (that it'll screw up the heart itself, not any kind of heart-brain connection) so that the rest of your highly valuable BMErisks won't be disregarded by someone who picks out this detail as incorrect and thinks the rest may be as well."

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