This is one of my most favorite images from India, catching a glimpse…
The art of cutting or grooming hair, is, udoubtedly, one of the most ancient arts in the history of mankind.
In the early Paleolithic societies, those who cut the hair were the ones with the highest authority among all the social classes. It was believed that into the hair dwelled the people’s soul, so the hair was the way that thoughts were expressed in a physic form. To cut the hair was a way to remove accumulated evil esence and to renew energies. So the task was entrusted to the wisest, the priests.
