The meaning and history of dreadlocks

When cutting the hair is long and significant history of dreadlocks. Common is the Rastafarian culture in today's connected, dreadlocks are all the way back to ancient Egypt.

Curiously, the historical significance of dreadlocks is basically a religion which fields many different cultures. The name, dreadlocks, has two possible etymologies. In an option, the word of the fear that is the hair style, inspired in which the fighters are such an inspiration to the locks. The other possibility is the Rastafarian word about "fear of the Lord."

According to Hindu scriptures say the god Shiva and his followers, the hairstyle JATA, "meaning twisted curls. Early Greeks, the different cultures of the Pacific Ocean, and some monks of different religious groups have used blocks of the hair could be formed and called dreadlocks.

Some of these groups are monks from the Ethiopian Coptic Church, Judaism, Nazari, Indian Sadhus, etc. Also, the early Christians wore dreadlocks. The first bishop of Jerusalem, Jacques, has been described that use long enough to reach to the ankles.

The use of this term to describe the dreadlocks hairstyle is easily traceable back to Jamaica in the 1950s. At this time the style was adopted by the members of "Young Black Faith", was an early start of the Rastafarian movement. The adoption of the chosen discount on the basis of biblical faith and is based on a passage from the Book of Numbers.


Dreadlocks seem relatively new in terms of hairstyles. The fact is that it could not be further from the truth. Dreadlocks have been, despite the different names since ancient times. Religious Ascetics are the types most often as part of their religious practices to be used. Today, the fears have used a variety of reasons. Some are religious. Others are a political statement, and others just because you believe that this style looks good on him / her.