An ancient mark of the hand, made new.
The tamga was the mark of the Eurasian steppe peoples – every clan with its own unmistakable sign, branded on livestock, cut into stone, struck onto coins and set beneath agreements. Handed down through the generations, it stood for origin, ownership and a word given: a signature long before anyone carried identification.
To this day the Kyrgyz word for a signature is “kol tamga” (кол тамга) – the hand’s mark. Which is Tamgara in a nutshell: your own mark, set beneath any document with a swipe of your finger.