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What Lily Tattoos Mean
With its big white or purple trumpet-shaped flower sitting on a tall, slender stem. Lily images in tattoos signify putiry, innocence and chastity. Although interestingly different cultures have also seen the lily image as a symbol for erotic love. Because of this the lily is a strong image with lots of meaning for different people, representing innocence love or erotic love and the wearer of lily tattoo designs can reflect different meanings in their own unique lily tattoo.
If you want to read about the Lotus Flower in tattoo design (the most famous of lilies), click here: Lotus Flowers in Tattoos
The lily has been taken by the bible and shown to represent a symbol of faith and a surrender to God’s grace. {Lily tattoo designs can represent a symbol of Christ himself and are often used as decorations during Easter.} A flower that represents immortality and resurrection. While some people wear lily tattoo designs simply because it is one of the most beautiful flowers, with its delicate colors, scent and curves.
The erotic love that can be signified in a lily image comes from the ancient Greeks, who saw the liy as a phallic symbol linked to fertility. Lily designs were very commonly used in these ancient cultures, the beauty of the lily flower clearly attracted people just as much back in those days as it does today. In france the royal family adopted the lily as the Fleur-de-Lis on their coat of arms in the 12th century. Three lily petals bound at the base in the image encured the survival ad prosperity of their blue line, they believed. Truly lily tattoo designs are images that play on the imaginations of people the world over.
The lily came to have its more innocent symbolic significance of love during the Renaissance, when artists often used a lily to represent putiry and chastity. A ery common image with a lily was when the Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she would give birth to Jesus. Which is why today lilies can be used in tattoo design as a strong symbol of purity.
Read a more indepth article about the meaing of lily tattoos here: What Lily Tattoos Mean
You can read my reivew of the most popular website online to buy lily tattoo designs here: Review of Chopper Tattoo
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Updated August 3, 2009