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8 Most Popular Celtic Design Tattoos

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Searching for top-rated Celtic design tattoos? Here's a list of the eight most popular Celtic tattoo designs for you to peruse and see if you can find one that best matches your style and personality. Knots. This is probably the most common style of Celtic tattoo. The entwined patterns of this design represent the continuous cycle of life and death-no beginning and no end. Sometimes the knot works form certain geometric shapes, such as triangles and circles. When these two shapes combine, it usually makes a trinity knot that symbolizes the mind, body and spirit-or alternately, the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Cross Designs This pattern type is based on the Latin cross and usually has a ring at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical lines. The Celtic cross is a symbol of the union of earth and the heavens-the vertical bar represents the spiritual world, the horizontal bar stands for the earth, while the ring is a symbol for the Creator's eternal love for mankind. In...

Popular Celtic Tattoo Designs

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If you are looking for an attractive Celtic tattoo design, this information is for you. Here is a description of the most popular and recommended Celtic tattoo designs being used today. Cross designs are a very popular Celtic symbol and frequently used in Celtic body art. The design is based on the Latin cross, and the vertical and horizontal lines symbolize the union of the heavens and the earth. There a ring in the middle, at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical lines that symbolizes the Creator's never-ending love for mankind, while the horizontal line represents the earth and the vertical line represents the spiritual world. Spiral patterns are often found inside the cross and stand for the eternal existence of love and spirit. For a more romantic design, you might consider the Celtic heart. These tattoo designs start as a line and end as a heart-shaped knot, representing the unity of souls. Celtic hearts are often known as the "love knot tattoo." Spira...

Celtic Butterfly Tattoos

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Where do Celtic Butterfly Tattoos come from? Celtic culture revolved around its strong links with nature, from the humble rock to the beautiful butterfly the Celts featured everything in their rich tradition. Celts were especially drawn to winged animals, believing these magical creatures contained souls, flying on an important journey searching for a new mother. This was the case of the butterfly, when an ideal female host was found the butterfly would conceal itself in her food/drink and wait to be consumed. Thus the butterfly would impregnate their soul, enabling it to be reborn within a child. To the Celts a butterfly was a strong symbol of reincarnation and evolution. A butterfly escaping from its cocoon, evolving from its previous grub form and by the injection of its soul into a woman its rebirth human infant. Peace, elegance and beauty all positive elements held highly in Celtic society were epitomized by the butterfly. These pagan foundations have carried through into modern s...