23 beautiful eye tattoos pictures
13 nice eye tattoos pictures have been posted in the category "Eye tattoos".
The tattoo of the eye represents one of the kinds of tattoos that you cannot help look at. It has many different sorts and kinds and the meaning of such eye tattoo can be really attractive and ancient.
Such eye tattoo can really become the third eye for the person that will protect him from the strikes from behind and help to see through human souls. The third eye in the ancient times could mean the higher and sacred knowledge, as well as some peculiar divine gift. As it was known, the eye tattoo on the back, shoulders, neck and the back of the head is an ancient tradition, and such eye tattoos were applied from the ancient times to give some sort of protection and to prevent some vicious animal or enemy from coming from behind.
In many religions as in Christianity there is known the depiction of the all-seeing divine eye that sees everything that happens in the world. Such eye helps human being to feel the eye of God and preserves him from different miseries. In several cultures it was considered that the human soul is in the eye and gets into the body through them, and the same way some evil spirits could get into the human body too. Often, therefore, the eye tattoo means protection from evil gazes.
In ancient Egypt the eye tattoo was the most wide-spread, and Egyptian people usually depicted on their bodies the eyes of gods Gor and Ra. It was considered that the eye of Gor can help human being to see and read the wills and desires of other people and everything that happens in their souls. The eye of Gor was the amulet and defender and symbolized the resurrection. Right eye was the symbol of the Sun and the left eye – the Moon. The eye of the main god of the Sun Ra, according to the common belief, watches everybody who believes in him and gives divine care for the person, symbolizes the light and healing, joy and calamity.
The eyes represent the mirror of the soul and that's why with eye tattoo one can depict absolutely different human feelings: pity and sadness, hesitation and anger, joy, simpleness and hope, fear and so on.
The all-seeing eye in the triangle is the symbol of the Holy Trinity that is also known as the famous mason symbol. Eyes represent the way to influence another person. Despite some bad meanings many people love eye tattoos and apply them because it brings aesthetics and beauty and because of the rare and original symbolic meaning that it brings with every eye design.