Sun Tattoos

The sun has religious and symbolic significance in many ancient and modern cultures.

In almost every country sun is related to god or worshipped as a deity.

From centuries people are permanently etching their bodies with sun tattoos.

In native America, sun is considered as a giver of life, growth, warmth and goodness.

Incas and Aztec’s worship sun. African god Liza is associated with the sun.

Greek, Roman and Celtic culture worship sun in their own way. Hindus and Japanese have their own traditions for sun god.

A strong tribal history of sun tattooing exists with evidences of many ancient men and women inking sun on their bodies.

A sun tattoo also meant at that time the bearer holds high position in society. Over the years people are wearing sun tattoos to honor the magical deity. Sun tattoos symbolizes magical partnership between life and sun. Sun symbolizes power, personal dignity, leadership, selfhood, eternal renewal, shining truth and light, centralized force and creativeness.

For some sun tattoos mean learning or pureness of soul and for few it represents divine power, immortality and reincarnation.

If a person is wearing a sun tattoo that doesn’t necessarily mean that he worships sun. Today sun tattoos are adorned for their virtual appearance rather than meaning. Artists bring life to sun tattoos with change in color, size or style. Every sun tattoo has its own meaning. Some reflect fun and others anger. A sun tattoo not always means fire, it can be designed into soft pattern by adding flowers or moon to sun giving a little fun.

Tattoo designs can be Celtic suns, tribal suns, Aztec suns, black sun, eye of Horus sun, sun with moon and stars. Whether on your arm, forearm, legs, chest, belly button or lower back a sun tattoo looks great.

A sun tattoo can be a traditional design or a modern school sun with number of choices available to choose from. Sun can be combined with stars, moon, clouds or tribal cross. Sun tattoo can be small or big, perfect round or semicircular, rising or setting behind mountains, combined with a star or moon or both.

Some go for small simple sun tattoos and others like large composite tattoos. The corona of the sun is designed in abstract patterns. Adding a personality to sun is easy, pairing a happy moon with angry sun or friendly sun with aloof moon makes perfect for expressing one’s mood on their hands.

The reason behind the popularity of sun tattoos vary according to person’s beliefs, cultures and personal thinking!