A Guide to the Best Snake tattoo designs

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Many of the best snake tattoo designs are seen incorporated with other designs, such as, hearts and daggers, or skulls and dragons. The beauty of the snake tattoo design is it doesn’t look out of place with any other tattoo design.

Snake tattoo designs are one of the oldest and still one of the best tattoo designs. This may have something to do with the rich history of myths and legends, and that is why you may see this design in either a love or hate tattoo.

Another reason for the snake’s popularity is that it looks great with, or without the use of colour. You can have the brilliant array of snake scales in various shades from the very bright to a dull hue. Or no colour at all starting from a pale grey to a vivid black, and either way the end result I’m sure will look fantastic.

Snakes and serpents have a long mythological history associated with good and evil, life and death, conception and devastation.

Because some snakes live in water and some underground, myths have been linked with water, as in the Chinese serpent that provided rain in time of need, or other cultures like in Australia, India, or Africa, where snakes are related to rainbows, and rainbows are often associated with rain and fertility. Another rainbow association with snakes is Da, a mythological African serpent who kept the oceans and sky in place and we could catch a quick look at Da when a rainbow appears.

Many snakes shed their as they grow and this has been used as a symbol of rebirth, change, and healing. The ancient Greeks believed snakes sacred to the god of medicine Asclepius who had a staff with serpents wrapped around it, which is still used as the symbol in modern medicine.

 The Ancient Greeks and Egyptians believed the snake was a symbol of immortality, and you can use these ideas for your snake tattoo design. For example, the Greeks had Ouroboros, a snake curled into a circle biting its own tail. The idea being that the continuing eating and regrowing of the tail is a symbol of the eternal cycle of devastation and conception. Perhaps, a good idea for a tattoo?

In Egyptian myth bad weather was thought to be the work of Apepi, a giant serpent who chased the sun god Ra across the sky, and if there was a solar eclipse then this meant the snake had devoured Ra and his sun boat, and a multitude of prayers and rituals were used to return the sun god back into the sky.

In some mythologies snakes are seen as the keeper of the underworld, symbolizing unseen wisdom and sacred secrets. But the snake has also been shown as a symbol of evil, death, or deceit, and some of the best snake tattoo designs are those telling the Christian story of how the snake tricks Adam and Eve into disobeying God. Myths involving snakes often showed them as evil, this may be in part due to their deadly venom.

Still a popular design today is that of the ancient Greek myth of Medusa, the beautiful snake haired woman, who had the power to turn men into stone with a single glance, and I’m sure we know of a few women who still have that power today.

In Hindu mythology there are many references to snakes. For example, the story of Kadru the snake goddess and her rivalry with her sister Vinata.  Kadru and Vinata were daughters of Daksha and were married to the sage Kashyap along with their other sisters. Kadru gave birth to a thousand snake children and she tried in vain to use her children to enslave her sister.

Whatever your reason for wanting a snake tattoo I hope this A Guide to Snake Tattoo Designs has given you some insight into the meanings behind snake tattoo designs. If you now like to check-out more snake tattoo designs, then click on the link below.

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