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Snake tattoo designs are one of the oldest and still one of the most popular tattoo designs. Snake mythology goes back a long way and this would explain it’s popularity.

Many of the best snake tattoo designs are seen incorporated with other designs, such as, hearts and daggers, or skulls and dragons. The snake not only doesn’t look out of place with other tattoo designs, it actually enhances most designs.

Another reason why the snake is one of the best tattoo designs is because you can use as much or as little colour and the design will still look fantastic. The dazzling collection of snake scales in various shades of color. What about no color at all; either way will look fantastic.

Snakes and serpents have a long mythological history associated with good and evil, life and death, beginnings and endings.

 The shedding of skin by the snake as it grows has been seen as a symbol of rebirth, change, and healing. The Ancient Greeks held the snake in high regard and that symbol can still be seen in medicine today with the staff and the snakes wrapped around it.

The Ancient Greeks and Egyptians believed the snake was a symbol of immortality. The Greeks had Ouroboros, a snake curled into a circle biting its own tail. The idea being that the continuing eating and regrowing of the tail is a symbol of the eternal cycle of ruin and re-birth.

In some mythologies snakes are seen as the keeper of the underworld, symbolizing unseen wisdom and sacred secrets. But the snake has also been show as a symbol of evil, death, or deceit. In Christianity, the serpent tricks Adam and Eve into disobeying God. Myths involving snakes often showed them as evil, this may be in part due to their deadly venom.

 In Australia, India, and Africa, where snake myths are related to rainbows, and rainbows are often associated with rain and fertility. Another rainbow association with snakes is Da, a mythological African serpent who kept the oceans and sky in place and we could catch a quick look at Da when a rainbow appears.

Whatever your reason for wanting a snake tattoo I hope this guide to snake tattoo designs has given you some insight into the meanings behind snake tattoo designs, and if you want to read more on snakes and other popular tattoo designs, then go to my site A Guide to Tattoo Designs, and you will see reviews on the best tattoo designs.

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