Owl Tattoo

What else could mark your love for the dark hours of day better than owl tattoo? That’s a really smart tattoo symbolizing more than just love for night. Old people in America still say that those who like to wear owls (in a form of jewellery or as prints on clothes) have good spirits within. Having an owl inked on your body would not just show your kind-hearted soul, but also attract well-minded spirits as believed by our ancestries.

When you are looking for owl tattoo designs, take in account the symbolic meaning of owl in different cultures. Ancient Greeks related this bird with the goddess of knowledge and learning – Athena. Romans gave owl the same qualities. That’s the reason why pretty traditional owl tattoo depicts an owl sitting on hills of books wearing mortarboards – that’s the tattoo for lovers of knowledge, learning, studying and wisdom.

Barn owls with heart-shaped faces and dark eyes are great hunters with amazing hearing ability. English folklore tells that barn owls can predict weather, but their reputation wasn’t that good at all. If you think about getting a barn owl tattoo, take in consideration that in some cultures seeing a barn owl means relatives’ death and that sinister, nasty, dishonest and villainous people after the death would turn into barn owls, while good souls would reincarnate into other species of owls.

For Celts and ancient Egyptians owl was a guard of worlds where the dead souls go, so this bird is called also “angel of death”. Not just dead spirits are under the oversight of owls, but spirituality in general is embodied into the owl figure – ability to see, act and be fully alert in the darkness. For Native American shamans owls were guides and their whistles meant signals to the world of the dead. Hindus cultural heritage approve owl connection to spiritual worlds as well, but in Africa owls are companions of witches, wizards and others who are related to magic and communication with spirits.

The most basic and widest meaning of owl tattoo is wearers close relationship to nature, gaining natural intelligence, understanding its’ secrets and being alert to natural processes learning and growing through them. Almost none of cultures everywhere around the world have ignored this bird without giving it spiritual meaning.