{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "the-timing",
 "type": "rite",
 "names": {
  "name": "When it is done",
  "said": "Before ordination, at twelve, at puberty, when the weaving is mastered"
 },
 "region": [
  "worldwide"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "poke"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The date is rarely free. Most traditions on this site fix the work to a passage the person is making anyway.",
  "story": "Bamar: the waist tattoo is done before or soon after temporary ordination as a monk — two rites of passage stacked on one season. Shan: twelve for the bold, fourteen for most. Chin: fifteen to twenty. Ainu: from five to thirteen, widened until marriage. Kalinga and Cordilleran: after the act that earns it. Atayal: a man's chin after he fathers a child.\n\n*Inference —* a mark made at a moment is a dated document. It is how these traditions record a life without writing anything down."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "วันเวลาไม่ค่อยเป็นอิสระ ธรรมเนียมส่วนใหญ่ผูกการสักไว้กับช่วงเปลี่ยนผ่านที่คนนั้นกำลังก้าวข้ามอยู่แล้ว"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "htoe-kwin",
   "as": "Stacked with ordination.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "atayal-ptasan",
   "as": "Stacked with fatherhood and with the loom.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-tattooing-in-myanmar",
  "s:milne-shans",
  "s:wp-ainu-people",
  "s:wp-atayal-people"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-tattooing-in-myanmar"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "initiation"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}