Butterfly Tattoos - these are one of the most popular designs being done today, probably ranking right at the top of those being done on women. While tattoos that use butterflies surely do capitalize on their great beauty and diversity, they are also highly symbolic creatures in many cultures, including our own.Popular butterfly tattoos tend to establish good credability, being in either colour or black and grey shades.Beginning in the east though, in Japan, one butterfly stands for young womanhood while two symbolize marital bliss. To the ancient aztecs , the butterfly stood both for the souls of dead warriors who had fallen on the battlefield and the souls of women who had died in childbirth – the two most noble deaths of which an Aztec could conceive. In Christian socienty it likewise stands for the soul, setting “free”. In the west, as elsewhere, the symbolism of the butterfly centers upon its unique transformation. From one existence as the slow and crawling caterpillar, then to the dormant cocoon, and finally the rebirth into a light and airy winged creature, the metamorphosis of the butterfly is one of its most powerful and uplifting meanings. Accordingly, over time, the butterfly has also come to represent not only beauty itself but also the transitory nature of that beauty and indeed of all life.
