A tattoo is a great way of projecting your individuality and personality to the outside world. A tattoo tells others lots about your nature and approach to life. This is why it is important that lots of thought is placed on choosing the right tattoo design for yourself.
You can choose tattoo designs based on animals, birds, snakes or some other signs through which is it possible for you to express your personality like an anchor or a heart. One of the tattoo designs that have great meaning in the tattoo world is the bird tattoo.
The reason for the added meaning in the bird tattoo is that since the beginning of time, birds have always been used to symbolize the human spirit and soul in all cultures worldwide. In fact, birds have also been associated to the divine in many religions and cultures. It was because of the fact that birds travel in the air that they were considered to be communing directly to the gods.
Birds are also considered to be guides that carried the spirits of the dead to the heavens. Ancient stories tell of birds accompanying heroes on their quests in defeating villains, dragons and monsters. This was because the bird has the capacity of flying ahead, and warning the hero of any danger. So if you have a belief in all these qualities and capacities of a bird helping mankind, you could have a bird tattoo drawn on your body.
In addition to all this, birds have always been associated with magic, religion and the supernatural. This is why there are images of birds everywhere from the mummies of Egyptian crypts to the Arapaho Indian Ghost Dance costumes. Even the Judeo-Christian adaptations of angels and cherubs have bird like wings, keeping the values of birds in mind. Moreover, in most cases, the bird has always been portrayed as a positive and uplifting symbol.
When you choose a bird tattoo design, the design is usually of two birds together where one is dark, and the other light. Sometimes one may in color and the other in black and white too. The reason for two colors being used in bird tattoos is to depict the duality of nature like darkness and light, happiness and sadness.
Sometimes this duality quality of birds is symbolized with a tattoo of a bird and another animal like a bird fighting a snake to represent good versus evil. Then again the bird tattoo is also included in other tattoo pictures like the addition of birds in the branches of a tree of life design.
There are also some other interpretations for birds like sexual connotations. The Chinese consider the meaning of its Chinese word to be similar to the meaning of the penis. Whereas, the image of the 'cock' tends to be related to the penis. So if you are a sexually oriented person, the bird tattoo could be something to think about. However instead of this meaning, it is the other interpretation of the bird that is taken into consideration when a person sees a bird tattoo.
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