What Everybody Should Know About The Celtic Tattoo Art?
The Celtic tattoo art in spite of its today’s popularity represents the same mystery as the skiff one does because of its origin misidentification.
There is a great deal of Celtic tattoo graphic elements, things from life and fairy-tales. If comparing ancient Celtic cosmogony with its natural basic and its loads of animal motifs many questions and serious discords are rising. The thing is not in alien details, but in its predominance change. A so called “wicker†was famous all over Eurasia from the ancient times. Celtic tattoos always kept aloof due to its special “arboreal†preferences, which were developed in its unique ornaments (knots and wickerwork).
But, to consider the evolution of Celtic tattoos let’s return to the subject of the Celts. Who were they? When did they live and where?
The Celts are the ancient tribes that lived in the beginning of the first millennium BC in Rhine, Siena and Loire basins and later occupied the territories of modern France, North Italy, North and West Spain, the British Isles, Czech Republic and Hungary and Bulgaria in part. The Romans called them the Gauls. The Celts mingled with indigenous tribes. In the 2nd century BC the Romans forced out the Celts from the north of Italy. Soon Caesar captured Gaul. By the middle of the 1st century BC the Celts had been conquered by the Romans and were romanized.
The Gaul and Britain conquest of Caesar’s legions struck a crushing blow to the Celtic world. Hence it appears a question – where do the animals in plant wickerwork come from as the Romans propagated Greek realism in art? It may be connected with the fact that a conquered part of Britain was under the control of the hired Sarmats. The inhabitants of the steppe regions Sarmats and the martial Celts mixed. The second version is that there were many Germanic and Scandinavian tribes that lived at that territory. So Scandinavian Vikings took in local customs and in a period of time added their own to the Celtic tattoos.
Further the Celtic tattoo art got a new style name – Celt-roman. Slavic tribes together with Rus christening got their past modernized motifs called Byzantine style. In contrast to Indian motifs Celtic tattoos can’t be considered as similar and invariable.
The popularity of Celtic images in tattoos has experienced regeneration recently. As the ancient Celts were famed by its skillful metal masters, complicated jewelry and weapon traceries their modern descendant saved the ancient symbolism in clothes, jewelry and, certainly, tattoos.
The majority of Celtic design variants were taken from the antique Irish manuscript “The Book of Kells”, which is kept at the College of the Holy Trinity in Dublin. The designs copied from stones come also from that Celtic period.
Celtic nodes usually have neither the beginning nor the end. This symbolizes the endless death and birth cycle. Celtic animal images follow the same principle though its lines can stop in head, paw and tail areas. Some nodes can be finished with spirals and zoomorphic elements.
What Everybody Should Know About The Proper Care For A New Tattoo
Tattoo – this is a body ornament, made by the skin puncturing and coloring.
The styles of modern painting and design can be conventionally divided into the following directions;
• Traditional tattoo; military, clannish (serves to indicate the belonging to a particular group), memorable (a portrait, family members’ images, certain people), professional, patriotic and so on and so forth. Including accompanying inscriptions.
• Ethnic tattoo – this one is base on the fine arts and ornamental culture of the world’s peoples.
• Oriental – is based on the traditional Chinese and Japanese tattoos.
• Flora and fauna.
• Biomechanical - cyber-punk, or a new school found by G.R. Giger.
• All sorts of styles, tendencies, inscriptions, signs, symbols – this depends on the tattoo master and the collector fantasy.
Remember to pay right attention to the process of regeneration. Irregular care (or it absence) may lead to inflation, which is undesirable itself and can influence the result as well: Chinese or Indian ink fades, disappear, by the way the master will see at once how his work regenerated. Ink producers may give a warranty of brightness for 15 years, but every one should remember that ink on the skin is an organic dye subjected to the fading on the sun, and remember to take proper care of a new tattoo – bathing, do not forget to protect your tattoo with special creams.
As soon as the tattoo is done a special compress is made for 12-24 hours. When it’s removed a special and important moment comes – proper care of a new tattoo. It’s important not just to make but to save it and this is your trouble however. The term of any tattoo closing up is about 7-10 days.
These days you should avoid:
• Water your tattoo
• Steam it out (in the sauna)
• Scratch it
• Rub it with alcohol-containing solution
• Watch the tattoo not to dry up and cover ( the master will recommend you special creams and the ways they should be used)
• Go to solarium
• Dirt the tattoo (dust for example)
• Go to the gym
• Before and after the very process of making the tattoo it’s forbidden to drink alcohol, coffee or any energy drinks
• Drugs are strictly forbidden
In Thailand for example tattoos do serve not only for mere decoration. This is a serious business. Many people here believe that tattoos may give them special power- something from being more attractive to being more powerful and even harmless. You should also look after your tattoo very carefully and with proper respect, as thoroughly as you will take care of an amulet. For the tattoo to bring about more power you should choose properly both the tattoo master and an ornament.
Find Here interesting Facts About Chinese Tattoos
There are lots of sense variations of tattoos and sometimes it may be very difficult to understand the message given by the tattoo owner. Primitively all the tattoos, which you may see on the bodies all over the world, may be divided into several groups: the first serve to rational purposes, the second should be observed from the aesthetic point of view. The tattoos of the first group – criminal symbols and the signs of distinction, military, navy and professional signs – they all reflect the person’s profession and make him look original and outstanding, noticeable especially for those who is let into conspiracy. Textual tattoos may be refer to this group as well. Concerning memorable, patriotic, religious, historical and mysterious symbols – they serve for ornament mostly in aesthetic purposes. Any kind of tattoo al in all emphasizes its owner character.
Chinese tattoos have always been very popular. Earlier such symbols were used by mafia and criminal elements – today they become popular among law-abide citizens as well. People like Chinese tattoos irrespective of their meaning.
In the choice of a symbol its aesthetic nature seems to be one of the main criteria – Chinese tattoos are the mere embodiment of this requirement. Usually choosing a tattoo hieroglyph a person pays attention to its meaning, to find that which will be somehow relevant to any history of a tattoo owner. Unfortunately for this very reason tattoos with hieroglyph or any other Chinese symbols may go out of date – for a person changes as the time passes, his interests and outlook may vary, As the result the decision to make such a tattoo should be well-considered, it won’t do any bad to consult a person who is an expert in Chinese symbolic and culture.
More frequently people choose hieroglyphs with neutral meaning such as “love†or “strength†for example.
Chinese Dragon
In Chinese culture Dragon stands for strength and enigma, mystery. This powerful mythical creature is associated with kindness and wisdom.
There are several varieties of dragon imaging: sky dragon dwells in the heavens and helps the gods, earth dragon is the master of the world, spiritual dragon – is the master of wind and rain, dragon-custodian observes precious stones and metals, winged dragon - is the only one who has wings, coiling dragon dwells in the ocean, yellow dragon has the broadest outlook.
In Eastern mythology and astrology all the psychotypes images are built on the certain types of animals. All in this world is changeable, there is nothing too stable and only nature gives each live being its own distinctive features, which no one is able to change. The tiger will never eat grass, and the hare will never become a predator.
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