Angel Tattoo Designs – Protection and Innocence

In most cases, the angel tattoo designs you will find in these links either symbolize particular religious beliefs or blessings and protection. Sometimes when people are looking to get an angel tattoo design it is because they have experienced a rebirth or rededication to their faith. Angels are often seen as compassionate and protective.

Normally in our culture we picture angel designs as being young and often they are pictured in white. Angel tattoos also typically have halos and wings, but these things aren't necessarily integral to the meaning of a tattoo. Angels are often seen in tattoo designs to have a bright aura around them, which shows the ultimate power that they have.

Angels are sometimes viewed as being even younger, childlike even, as in a cherub. In the Italian Renaissance era, they were known as "putti." On a tattoo design, a cherub angel is nearly always symbolic of purity and innocence, just like a human child is. Sometimes these particular angel tattoos are used to memorialize a child that has passed away, as the tattoo design means the child will always be immortal in the person's eyes.

It is often thought that the angel tattoos are representing Christian beliefs, but that doesn't always have to be the case. Angels are also seen in ancient Persian culture and also in Japanese cluture and Buddhism. These angels' robes and feathers represent the five virtues – kindness, goodness, respect, economy, and altruism, and are also represented in five different colors, but the colors differ with the source of the angel beliefs.

The angel tattoos you will see in these links can be placed anywhere on your body, but in most cases people get these particular tattoo designs on their shoulder, to show that their angel is always looking over them, like a guardian angel.

 

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