Scorpio Tattoo Design

Scorpion tattoos can be dark and forbidding, but they can also be a lot more attractive than you might think. These tiny, deadly desert creatures – in appearance, a cross between a spider and a tiny lobster – have gracefully curved bodies that lend themselves well to tattoo designs.

A scorpion tattoo can look exotic and intriguing on a man or a woman – all in all, a great image for someone who wants a tattoo with a little bit of ‘edge’, or one that is a little beyond the ordinary.

Scorpion tattoos can be large or small, and they can have as much or as little detail as you’d like. In any case, it will be immediately recognizable – because even those of us who have never seen an actual scorpion seem to have an innate recognition of the symbol and all that it represents.

Scorpio tattoo Design

The scorpion has had various meanings and representations in different cultures in history. In Mesopotamia, Gilgamesh for example approaches mountains where scorpion folk guard the entrance. Additionally, the Akkadians called the constellation Scorpio, Girtab, meaning the Seizer, or Stinger and “Place Where One Bows Down”. IN Egyptian mythology, thescorpion stands for Set, the Trickster and brother of Nephthys, nemesis and opponent of Osiris, and Isis.The Falaknuma palace of Hyderabad, India, is laid out in the shape of ascorpion with two stingers spreading out as wings to the north.
Scorpio is the eighth of the twelve signs of the zodiac, corresponding to the constellation Scorpius, and is most often depicted as aScorpion . Throughout history, Scorpio has at times been depicted as an eagle. It is the only one of the zodiac symbols to have two distinct animals.