Take a quick look at the panther tattoo design in the picture. It’s a ferocious crawling panther design that was once the staple of the tattoo world. The panther is a complex animal and a member of two different families, the puma and the leopard. These are the animals that hunt and kill other animals for food. The panther tattoos symbolizes courage, personal leadership, strength, and power. Sometimes animals are used to describe their personalities and characteristics. Lion is used to describe a brave man. Panthers are also used to describe a power of man.
But sometimes panthers are used to describe a beautiful and courageous woman. Because panthers are gentle and loving with their children. In the superstitious and mystical world it is believed that panthers have sweet breath that can be smelled by other animals and humans from far away. This sweet breath makes panthers a symbol of the breath of life. One of the most famous and powerful tattoos of the twentieth century is a crawling panther. The Black Panther or crawling panther is a form of the big cat. Because of it’s body shape it is ideally placed over the rolling and fluid musculature of the human body.
This guy has a pretty cool panther tattoo on his arm in this picture. It looks as if this panther is perched up on his arm, with his head arched back as if to say, come no closer or else, and even though it is just at tattoo, it gets the point across very well. At least it does for me. They say that s panther tattoo is popular among men because the panther is a symbol of leadership, strength and power. And while I think that may be part of it, I am not sure many people even know about those meanings.
I think guys see a panther certainly as a beast of power and in some ways try to emulate that by getting a panther tattoo put on themselves. In other cultures a panther is a symbol of the sun. And thus a symbol of life itself, but again I doubt that many people around the world who get a panther tattoo put a while lot of stock into those meanings. People rarely get tattoos because of their historic meaning. They do it for what that image means to them more than anything and that is the way it should be.
The panther tattoo is one of the most powerful and enduring of all the animal tattoos. And the black panther tattoo is especially popular historically. But, what does the panther design mean? Let’s take a quick look at the meaning and origin of this design. The panther is a member of either the leopard or puma families and is a predatory animal found throughout the Near East and in parts of North Africa. They are known for their savage cunning and in China the black panther is considered especially dangerous.
Because of their characteristics in the animal kingdom, they have become associated with superior courage, strength, and fighting ability in the tattoo world. It is ironic that the crawling form, such as in this example, may have been adapted from a 1934 children’s book on mythology by old time Milwaukee tattoo artist Amund Dietzel. He adapted the tattoo from the design in the book and began tattooing. It was an instant smash hit and became the popular tattoo of it’s day. And now after a few years of stagnation the panther tattoo has made a comeback in the world of tattooing. So, if you have an interest in this magical design now is a good time to incorporate it into your personal body ink collection.
Here we have a sheet of twenty small samples of panther tattoos. They range from a full body tattoo to just the head of the panther and then a few others in between. Some are of the classic panther image while others are slanted toward a different style of tattoo and still some others where the artist took a bit more of an artistic license with. And that’s cool. That’s what a really good artist will generally do. Take the standard image and then put his/her own influence into it and by doing so turn it into something special and unique.
If I were to get one of these panther tattoos, I would want mine to be as unique as possible while still looking like a very cool panther, because you certainly don’t want to lose that part of it. It’s sort of the whole point of getting something like a panther to begin with, to put on ones body. You don’t want the artist to be so unique that he somehow loses the original idea along the way. That is what I call a bad artist. A good artist is unique and stays true to the image. So if you’re looking to get one of these panther tattoos, or any other, make sure you find the right type of artist first. |
30 Jun 2009
