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Dragon Tattoo designs: The legend behind tattoos by Tattoo Star
For millennia Dragons have populated fantasy stories from all over the world. In the modern scientific and technological age, dragons have found their place on the skin of many tattoo lovers.
A dragon tattoo can represent many different things. Usually is a sign for strength, vitality and grace but also wisdom, eternity, power. The symbolism behind dragon tattoos is so rich and so different, it is impossible to define one single general meaning for all dragon tattoo designs.
In ancient stories dragons were often characterized by an ambivalence of violence and wise gentleness. You could not really say at the beginning of a story whether it would be a good or an evil dragon: a misunderstood, intelligent but frightful animal, or a deadly enemy capable of destroying whole cities with his breath of fire?
Dragons (and also dragon tattoo designs) have always had a particular importance in Chinese cultures. Here dragons are seen in a positive way and considered as protectors against demons and as good luck charms.
Dragons also have a symbolic importance in the Ying and Yang conception, bringing strength to the masculine part, the Yang, and connecting concepts like water and fertility to the feminine part, the Ying.
The well known Ying and Yang symbol is sometimes depicted with two dragons fighting each other. This wonderful dragon tattoo represents the creative energy of the universe. Similar meaning can be ascribed to the same tattoo symbol depicted with a dragon fighting a tiger. In this case the tiger tattoo design represents the earth and world of the real things, while the dragon represents the hereafter, all that’s beyond the human limits, the transcendental and spiritual part of the universe.
In our culture, dragons are often seen as the last obstacle to be fought and overcome. This way of seeing dragons is translated into beautiful dragon tattoos symbolizing the difficulties that a man has to overcome to reach his goals.
As seen, in many different cultures dragons have different meanings: wise brave animals, trusted friends of mankind or terrible enemies to eliminate.
Depending on the style of your dragon tattoo, you could choose a symbol of wisdom and kindness or one of furious and powerful violence and destruction.
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