Owl tattoo designs

The tattoo of an owl is one of the most interesting - on the one hand, represents wisdom and reason, on the other hand - bears death and destruction.

At the Celtic people the owl was called precisely by "the night witch" and "a cadaveric bird".

At Christians, Japanese, Egyptians, Chinese the owl was associated with bad news, death, darkness and grief, destructive energy, a devil because leads mainly a nocturnalism, flies silently and possesses the shining eyes, plus to everything terribly shouts.

On the other hand, as the owl and an eagle owl are able to see in the dark, sketches of a tattoo of an owl designate gift of anticipation. At Indians and Greeks the tattoo of an owl designates wisdom and reason, mind and erudition, such values reached and up to now. Was considered that the owl accompanies the goddess of wisdom and study Athena.

Major meanings of the Owl tattoos are the following:

• Judiciousness
• Loneliness as pleasure
• Charm (in this case it is possible to put feathers simply
• Erudition and mind
• Sharpness
• Vital firmness
• Will power and spirit
• Lucidity of mind

Here are the main places for the owl tattoo designs: Breast, back, neck, shovel, side, calves, hip.

Value of a tattoo will help to orient with a choice of the image which will tell about an interior, its character and habits. Choosing a tattoo in the form of the image of an owl, an eagle owl or a horned owl, it is necessary to know that it can bear a value duality therefore it is important to choose character of the picture.

Value of a tattoo in the form of an owl makes contradictory sense as since ancient times the different people concerned to this bird differently. So, for example, the people of China and Japan because of a night image of an owl considered her the envoy of a next world. In Egypt was considered that the owl is the envoy of two worlds – live and dead. At the Christian people the owl was a symbol of sorcery and witch force.

The contradictory opinion developed in ancient Athens where people considered that the owl is a symbol of wisdom and judiciousness. For this reason the image of an owl became a symbol of erudition and a superior intelligence which reached and up to now. In present time a tattoo the owl means spirituality and a high intelligence.

The person preferring to put himself a tattoo with the image of an owl has to think what context will bear in himself drawing. Important and how the owner of a tattoo will perceive it – whether will be it a symbol of mind and erudition, or intimidation and a nocturnalism.

With the image of an eagle owl people skilled which achieved definite purposes prefer to carry a tattoo and found knowledge on the course of life. The tattoo of an eagle owl began to bear positive sense not especially long ago, meaning knowledge, experience, wisdom though in the ancient time the image of an eagle owl carried absolutely other sense.

Ancient Chinese believed that the eagle owl brings with himself death and horror therefore treated a bird with care and respect. Christians believed that the eagle owl brings bad news, even there was an opinion that the bird is a follower of a devil.

And here the opinion of Indian tribes, unlike others, made other sense. Indians considered that the eagle owl is a prophetical bird therefore often represented her on totems as a protective mascot. A charm considered also feathers of a bird which Indians fixed on headdresses.

In modern time of a tattoo with the image of an eagle owl the people of any floor preferring to learn the world and to lead a nocturnalism can carry. It is considered that the tattoo of an eagle owl brings to the owner of knowledge and success in vital affairs.