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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Tribal Celtic Tattoo Designs

By Luke J. Slyvester

How often have you seen a tribal tattoo upon someone who is walking down the street? Or looked through a tattooists designs and seen a huge array of different tribal tattoo designs available to you. This is because the tribal tattoo design alone is quite popular, but as part of a piece, tattooists often find it is even more popular.

Tribal tattoos used to be specifically that. They were used by many different tribes in their initiations, rites, and everyday life. The tattoos allowed other members who had left, or those of another tribe, to see who belonged to what tribe. Although that use is not valid in our modern western society, tribal tattoos are still popular.

For tribes, these tattoos where an important part of any ceremony. They were given when someone had their first hunt, when another was promoted, or became a man, or a mother, and when people got married. The marriage tribal tattoo design is usually a tattoo arranged to form a band, a circle that never ends, obviously a symbol of their love.

The most popular form of tribal tattoo in today's society is actually the Celtic tribal tattoo design. Or, to be more specific, the tattoos which were commonly used by druidic practitioners in Celtic tribes.

The Celtic tribal tattoo designs are no longer specifically worn by druids, however, when they are they are not for decoration and beauty, but are instead used within magical rituals which are performed by the druids. It is said that these tattoos are hidden signals which can be used to activate spells.

Today, the most popular of all these tattoos is the Celtic cross. This is not only popular among those who wish to have a tribal tattoo, but can be chosen as part of religious identification, or tattooed for the memory of another, one who was lost.

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