Tattoo

Maori / Polynesian Tattoos

2011-01-17T21:47:00.001+02:00

Tribal Seahorse Tattoos

2011-01-17T01:49:00.001+02:00

Graham Townsend Tattoo Flash

2010-12-04T14:02:00.010+02:00

Graham Townsend Tattoo Flashes for denolaman@.....net

Gothic Cross Tattoos

2010-10-29T08:49:00.001+03:00

Zombie Tattoos

2010-10-29T07:44:00.007+03:00

Living Dead Tattoos !

Gothic Tattoos

2010-10-25T09:57:00.000+03:00

Kokopelli Kokopelli Kokopelli

2010-09-24T11:37:00.002+03:00

KOKOPELLI are seen as bringers of happiness and fertility.

Their cheerful songs can lift anyone out of sadness.

Jukebox Ladies

2010-08-03T22:30:00.001+03:00

The Dragonfly

2010-07-20T11:17:00.002+03:00

Once, in a little pond, in the muddy water under the lily pads, there lived a little water beetle in a community of water beetles. They lived a simple and comfortable life in the pond with few disturbances and interruptions...
Once in a while, sadness would come to the community when one of their fellow beetles would climb the stem of a lily pad and would never be seen again. They knew when this happened; their friend was dead, gone forever...
Then, one day, one little water beetle felt an irresistible urge to climb up that stem. However, he was determined that he would not leave forever. He would come back and tell his friends what he had found at the top...
When he reached the top and climbed out of the water onto the surface of the lily pad, he was so tired, and the sun felt so warm, that he decided he must take a nap. As he slept, his body changed and when he woke up, he had turned into a beautiful blue-tailed dragonfly with broad wings and a slender body designed for flying...
So, fly he did! And, as he soared he saw the beauty of a whole new world and a far superior way of life to what he had never known existed...
Then he remembered his beetle friends and how they were thinking by now he was dead. He wanted to go back to tell them, and explain to them that he was now more alive than he had ever been before. His life had been fulfilled rather than ended...
But, his new body would not go down into the water. He could not get back to tell his friends the good news. Then he understood that their time would come, when they, too, would know what he now knew.

So, he raised his wings and flew off into his joyous new life!

PitBull Tattoos

2010-07-03T23:22:00.007+03:00

BAT Tattoos

2010-07-01T01:14:00.002+03:00

Wings Tattoos

2010-05-31T23:48:00.003+03:00

Angel Wings, Devil Wings, Fairy Wings, Butterfly Wings or Dragon Wings ...

Are you an ANGEL, or DEVIL IN DISGUISE ?

Lilly Tattoos

2010-05-17T22:43:00.001+03:00

New Skull Tattoos

2010-05-17T11:15:00.001+03:00

Beautiful SeaHorse Tattoos

2010-05-13T21:17:00.001+03:00

Anchor Tattoos

2010-04-20T19:59:00.001+03:00

Scorpion Tattoos

2010-04-16T22:32:00.001+03:00

LADYBUG TATTOOS

2010-04-09T22:51:00.003+03:00

Thunderbird - Quezacotl

2010-04-08T10:41:00.004+03:00

it is intelligent, powerful, and wrathful...

The Thunderbird's name comes from the common belief that the beating of its enormous wings causes thunder and stirs the wind. The Lakota name for the Thunderbird isWakį́yą, a word formed from kįyą́, meaning "winged", and wakhą́, "sacred". The Kwakwaka'wakw have many names for the Thunderbird and the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) called him Kw-Uhnx-Wa. The Ojibwa word for a thunderbird that is closely associated with thunder is animikii, while large thunderous birds are known as binesi.

Across many North America indigenous cultures, the Thunderbird carries many of the same characteristics. It is described as a large bird, capable of creating storms and thundering while it flies. Clouds are pulled together by its wingbeats, the sound of thunder made by its wings clapping, sheet lightning the light flashing from its eyes when it blinks, and individual lightning bolts made by the glowing snakes that it carries around with it. In masks, it is depicted as many-colored, with two curling horns, and, often, teeth within its beak. The Native Americans believed that the giant Thunderbird could shoot lightning from its eyes.

Depending on the people telling the story, the Thunderbird is either a singular entity or a species. In both cases, it is intelligent, powerful, and wrathful. All agree that one should go out of one's way to keep from getting thunderbirds angry.

The singular Thunderbird (as the Nuu-chah-nulth thought of him) was said to reside on the top of a mountain, and was the servant of the Great Spirit. The Thunderbird only flew about to carry messages from one spirit to another. It was also told that the thunderbird controlled rainfall.

The plural thunderbirds (as the Kwakwaka'wakw and Cowichan tribes believed) could shapeshift into human form by tilting back their beaks like a mask, and by removing their feathers as if it were a feather-covered blanket. There are stories of thunderbirds in human form marrying into human families; some families may trace their lineage to such an event. Families of thunderbirds who kept to themselves but wore human form were said to have lived along the northern tip of Vancouver Island. The story goes that other tribes soon forgot the nature of one of these thunderbird families, and when one tribe tried to take them as slaves the thunderbirds put on their feather blankets and transformed to take vengeance upon their foolish captors.

The Sioux believed that in "old times" the Thunderbirds destroyed dangerous reptilian monsters called the Unktehila.

info source : wikipedia.org

Haida Tattoos

2010-04-08T02:56:00.001+03:00

Bear Tattoo Designs

2010-04-06T16:14:00.002+03:00

More Raven Tattoos

2010-04-03T22:27:00.002+03:00

Elephant Tattoos

2010-03-30T23:43:00.004+03:00

Elephants have had profound effects on culture, nowhere more so than in India where Ganesh, a popular Hindu God, takes the form of half elephant, half human. They are huge, and move so gracefully. Their form is unique. They have an incredible memory. Elephants are amazing. They are beautiful, yet dangerous; majestic, yet their survival is in jeopardy.

Dolphin Tattoos

2010-03-25T10:09:00.000+02:00

Bull Tattoos

2010-03-21T15:07:00.002+02:00

Flower Climb Tattoo Designs

2010-03-21T15:03:00.002+02:00

Buffalo Tattoo Drawings

2010-03-21T07:59:00.003+02:00

Elvis The King Tattoo Ideas

2010-03-20T11:02:00.002+02:00

Celebrity Portrait Drawings

2010-03-20T02:03:00.002+02:00

Paul Newman, Prince, Johnny Deep, Jack Sparrow, 2 pac, Adriana Lima, Albert Einstein, James Dean, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe, Orlando Bloom, Reese Witherspoon, Farrah Fawcett, Will Smith

Bob Marley Tattoos

2010-03-20T01:48:00.002+02:00

Raccoon Tattoos

2010-03-17T23:56:00.002+02:00

In the mythology of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the raccoon was the subject of folk tales.^[188] Stories such as How raccoons catch so many crayfish from the Tuscarora centered on its skills at foraging.^[189] In other tales, the raccoon played the role of the trickster who outsmarts other animals, like coyotes and wolves.^[190] Among others, the Dakota Sioux believed that the raccoon had natural spirit powers, since its mask resembled the facial paintings, two-fingered swashes of black and white, used during rituals to connect to spirit beings.^[191] The Aztecs linked supernatural abilities especially to females whose commitment to their young was associated with the role of wise women in the tribal society.^[192]

The raccoon also appears in Native American art across a wide geographic range. Petroglyphs with engraved raccoon tracks were found in Lewis Canyon, Texas; at the Crow Hollow Petroglyph site in Grayson County, Kentucky;^[193]^[194] and in river drainages nearTularosa, New Mexico and San Francisco, California.^[195] A true to detail figurine made of quartz stone, the Ohio Mound Builders' Stone Pipe, was found near the Scioto River. The meaning and significance of the Raccoon Priests Gorget which features a stylized carving of a raccoon and was found at the Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma, remains unknown.^[196]^[197]

In Western culture, several autobiographical novels about living with a raccoon have been written, mostly for children. The best-known isSterling North's Rascal, which recounts how he raised a kit during World War I. In recent years, anthropomorphic raccoons played main roles in the animated television series The Raccoons, the computer-animated film Over the Hedge and the video game series Sly Cooper.

source: wikipedia.org

OWL Tattoo Designs

2010-03-17T20:23:00.003+02:00

Native American Portrait Drawings

2010-03-17T13:01:00.002+02:00

Wolf Portrait Tattoos

2010-03-16T21:47:00.002+02:00

Killer Clown Tattoos

2010-03-06T14:55:00.001+02:00

THORNS

2010-03-06T11:05:00.001+02:00

RAVEN Tattoos

2010-03-06T00:48:00.002+02:00

Raven meanings of wisdom, prophecy and knowledge-keeping.

Soul-knowledge will not die with the body

Lotus Flower Tattoos

2010-03-05T19:19:00.002+02:00

From ancient times the lotus has been a divine symbol in Asian traditions representing sexual purity, a virtue.

Hindus revere it with the divinities Vishnu and Lakshmi often portrayed on a pink lotus in iconography. In the representation of Vishnu as Padmanabha (Lotus navel), a lotus issues from his navel with Brahma on it. Goddess Sarasvati is portrayed on a white-colored lotus.

Often used as an example of divine beauty, Vishnu is often described as the 'Lotus-Eyed One'. Its unfolding petals suggest the expansion of the soul. The growth of its pure beauty from the mud of its origin holds a benign spiritual promise. In Hindu iconography, other deities, like Ganga and Ganesha are often depicted with lotus flowers as their seats.

The lotus plant is cited extensively within Puranic and Vedic literature, for example:

One who performs his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme Lord, is unaffected by sinful action, as the lotus is untouched by water.
—Bhagavad Gita 5.10:

This has also taken root in Chinese cultures with a famous statement made by the Confucian scholar Zhou Dunyi:

I love the lotus because while growing from mud, it is unstained.

In Buddhist iconography, Buddha is often represented on a pink lotus. In Buddhist symbolism, the lotus represents purity of the body, speech, and mind as if floating above the muddy waters of attachment and desire. It is also to be noted that most Buddhist, Chinese, Hindu, Japanese, amongst other Asian deities are often are depicted as seated on a lotus flower. According to legend, Gautama Buddha was born with the ability to walk and everywhere he stepped, lotus flowers bloomed.

In the classical written and oral literature of many Asian cultures the lotus is present in figurative form, representing elegance, beauty, perfection, purity and grace, being often used in poems and songs as an allegory for ideal feminine attributes. In Sanskrit the word lotus (padma पद्म) has many synonyms. Since the lotus thrives in water, ja (denoting birth) is added to synonyms of water to derive some synonyms for the lotus, like ambuja (ambu= water + ja=born of), neeraj (neera=water + ja= born of), pankaj, pankaja, kamal, kamala, kunala, aravind,arvind, nalin,nalini and saroja^[4] and names derived from the lotus, like padmavati (possessing lotuses) or padmini (full of lotuses).^[5] These names and derived versions are often used to name girls, and to a lesser extent boys, in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, as well as in many other countries influenced by Indic culture, like Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia and Laos.

Drawing in turn on these beliefs, the international Bahá'í community adopted this symbolism in the design of the Lotus Temple in New Delhi, India.

source: wikipedia.org

Beautiful Swallow Tattoos

2010-03-04T21:14:00.002+02:00

Peace Symbol Tattoos

2010-03-03T23:00:00.001+02:00

Cannabis Tattoos

2010-03-03T01:12:00.001+02:00

Eyeball Tattoos

2010-03-01T11:43:00.001+02:00

More Skull Tattoos

2010-03-01T10:43:00.001+02:00

INSIDE YOUR BODY

2010-03-01T10:32:00.001+02:00

Finger - Knuckle Tattoos

2010-01-23T21:45:00.003+02:00

Small details are placed on the fingers...

Eyelid Tattoos

2010-01-23T21:05:00.001+02:00

Lion Tattoos

2010-01-01T13:53:00.001+02:00

Ear Tattoos

2009-12-28T20:46:00.002+02:00

Miscellaneous Animal Tattoos

2009-12-19T12:48:00.003+02:00

Viking Tattoos

2009-11-10T15:13:00.001+02:00

Japanase Tattoos

2009-11-10T14:56:00.000+02:00

Tattoos By Seth Ciferri

2009-11-05T23:51:00.000+02:00

Seth Ciferri is an American tattooist. He operated a tattoo shop in Baltimore, called Read Street Tattoo Parlour, from 1999 to 2006, and began his career in 1993, having served a traditional apprenticeship. Ciferri is credited with creating an online community called "The Read Street Tattoo Forum" in 2000 that eventually had a membership of thousands of tattoo artists, thereby hastening an exchange of technical information.[citation needed]

Ciferri is one of a small handful of tattooists that has been authorized by Chase Lisbon (close friend and creator of alt-porn site, Supercult.com) to give the coveted "Cult Banger" or simply "Banger" tattoo. He currently lives in Portland, is married, and has two children.
Visit Seth's website

Tattoos By Corey Miller

2009-09-20T13:30:00.001+03:00

Click here to visit Corey Miller's official website

Amy's Cool Bettie Paige Tattoo

2009-08-25T15:13:00.004+03:00

Bettie

By Albert @ The Skyn Yard

Thanks Amy (28 yrs) for sharing your tattoo with us.