Sun Tattoos

Sun tattoos are very popular tattoo designs. These are vary innovative, decorative and beautiful images. The sun as tattoo design is a reflection of the Sun's profound symbolic nature in most cultures around the world. And, as with so many other symbols, a slight change in color, style or size can give each sun tattoo a totally unique meaning.

The most common symbol of the sun is a circle with the sun's rays emanating from the perimeter. So just as a picture of a sun might be the first thing a child learns to draw, sun tattoos are also elementary, and universally appealing. The sun has had a religious and symbolic significance in many ancient cultures, one that is backed up by science.

Sun tattoos can be rendered in a great variety of styles. There are tribal suns, celtic suns and aztec suns. Using appropriate color schemes and shades you can draw an evil angry suns or flaming suns. The tribal sun images are based on ancient Celtic art. These images are very simple to create. For example, the circle of the sun may have a spiral or several inside it.

These images are not so much large but regardless of size these are very impactful images. As mentioned above sun tattoo pictures can be found in many styles including whether adorning your arm, shoulder, forearm, chest, or legs or lingering seductively around your belly button or lower back, the sun is always on the rise.

A Sun represents fertility, vitality, passion, courage and eternally renewed youth, light and knowledge. On a gravestone, the sun symbolizes the soul rising to Heaven. The sun symbolizes the will that is necessary to creatively participate in the greater whole.

Besides selecting tattoo styles for sun tattoos, decisions must be made whether the tattoo is black and white or a colorful image. A more naturalistic, yellow or orange sun can be very bold and attractive. In many cultures a sun as a tattoo design and symbol, was represented by an eagle, an eagle with a serpent, a winged serpent-dragon, a falcon-egyptian god horus, phoenix, swan, lion, ram, cock or bull.

The Sun could be further represented by the Heart symbol, a rosette or rose, the lotus, the sunflower and the chrysanthemum. Many cultures have myths that explain the rising and the setting of the sun, and this repeating cycle of light and dark has come to symbolize life and death, regeneration and reincarnation.

Here you can find the collection of sun tattoo designs and pictures.

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