Celtic Symbols in tattoos - the meaning (I hope)

  The following celtic symbol definitions have been collected from various internet sites and please do not take the meanings as fact as I am no expert, these are here as examples of some peoples definitions of ancient symbols and there may be other definitions for the same celtic tattoo symbols.

Some of the following celtic symbols are defined by the tattoo artists that did the art and some are a modern take on ancient meanings ...

Actually, many are now my definitions... if you want to be trendy, get a celtic tattoo, everyone has one. Not a Celt? no problem... again everyone has one and every tattoo shop has hundreds of these stencils to chooses from.

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So where did flesh art and the “modern” tattoo originate from? hmmm… I doubt anyone can really say for sure, many would say that what we now know as the modern art of tattoo came from Polynesia and who am I to contradict that?

But tattoos can be found in cave paintings, relics and even ummies all over the world with some going back as far as 2000 - 3000 BC. I just read something that stated that the world’s most spectacular tattooed mummy was discovered by Russian anthropologist Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko in 1948 during the excavation of a group of Pazyryk tombs about 120 miles north of the border between China and Russia.

Anyway, we have seen a huge comeback in “tribal” styled tattoos many of which are Polynesian styled. Tribal style flesh art has become rather trendy in many urban places far from the Pacific Islands that the trend originated from.

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