Bat Tattoos

Story behind bat tattoo

Some of the legends may be based on truths. For example, bats are night creatures. They shun the daylight, and even avoid bright moonlit nights. But, of the 900 or so species of bats, only three are vampire bats that drink blood. Their food of choice is cows and, due to the anticoagulant in their saliva, they can feed off the animal for 20-30 minutes. The other 890+ species satisfy themselves with fruits and bugs. Not very frightening.

Early Christian art, which depicted angels as having bird wings, similarly depicted demons as having bat wings. Early Christian beliefs, found in the writings of St. Paul, actually said that women’s hair attracts demons – so they should leave it covered during church. This lead to a longstanding tradition that women wore hats to church, and the longstanding but untrue myth that bats fly into hair. With such a history, it’s no surprise that a bat tattoo will conjure up images of night creatures, bloodsuckers, and other such macabre interpretations.

Native American mythology seems to compromise between the two interpretations above. In this culture, the bat is seen as both a symbol of death (because of the night) and a symbol of rebirth (because bats sleep with heads down, just as a baby is before birth). The bat represents the need to die a “ritual” death before developing into a new being, and was often a key animal in initiations for shamans.

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Art Drawing Skull Tattoo

A human skull with large, gaping, eye sockets can look very visually striking. However, the skull has long been regarded by most cultures as a symbol of death. Skull tattoos could therefore be used to show that the wearer has no fear of death. A skull tattoo could say that the wearer has accepted their own mortality and is actually pretty cool about the whole thing! They could also be used to remind the wearer that they will one day die and should therefore live each day to the full. Because of this association with death, skull tattoo designs can also be a good choice to commemorate the death of a friend or loved one. While some skull tattoo designs can be made to look quite scary, colorful skull tattoos can be quite the opposite!

It was once common for Skull tattoos to be sought after by a certain type of person who wanted to project a dark and menacing persona. Skull tattoo designs are often used for prison tattoos and gang tattoos. Many bikers wear a skull tattoo as a talisman to protect them from death! From an artistic stance, Skull tattoos can be very effective tattoo designs both on their own and when combined with other imagery, such as: Animals, Banners, Dice, Flames, Flowers, Playing cards, Weapons, Wings, the possibilities are endless! Skull tattoo designs can be very versatile, a talented tattoo artist should have little trouble making a design to fit anywhere on the body. They can also be combined with other styles. A detailed skull tattoo design with a tribal tattoo background can look very striking.

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Polish Eagle Tattoo

The White Eagle is the oldest of Poland's national symbols. It is its emblem, its coat of arms. Its origins are both legendary and historical.

Well over a thousand years ago, the three legendary brothers: Lech, Czech and Ruś, leaders of their Slavic tribes, were wandering in Central Europe looking for a place for permanent settlement. Czech became the founder of the nation and state of the Czechs. Ruś went east and became the founder of the nation and state of the Ruthenians.

Lech went further north. One day, he and his tribe stopped for a rest at the edge of a great forest. Looking around Lech spotted a large white bird, majestically circling overhead.

The bird landed on a nest in a large oak tree. Lech took the presence of the white eagle and its nest to be a good omen. He turned to his Lechitians and said: "Here will be the place of our permanent settlement which we shall call Gniezno (the old Polish word for nest) and the White Eagle shall be our symbol." The declaration was enthusiastically acclaimed and accepted by all the Lechitians.

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Tattoos are great options to express one's fashion. And would you believe that your personality depends on how you choose font tattoo designs? Believe it or not, these designs are not equal. Regardless of size, they're made up of several shapes and styles that can give life to the font figure.

Getting excellent font tattoo designs is actually easy. A simple one can do. Having a colorful design sounds good yet the too much blends of colors might no longer as perfect as you wanted.

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