Animals: tattoo meanings
Snake, wolf, butterfly, moth: animals are the largest group of tattoo meanings, and almost always a statement about the person wearing them.
Animals
Koi tattoo
A carp swims up the river and the one that clears the waterfall turns into a dragon. That is why the koi is what people pick after years of grinding. What the colors are read as, why the direction rule is thinner than it looks, and why a koi under five inches turns into a gray smudge.
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A snake sheds its whole skin in one piece and comes out intact underneath. That is the snake tattoo meaning most people are after: the version of yourself you are done with, left behind. Plus the medical symbol nearly everyone gets wrong, and why a rattlesnake with a motto reads as politics in the US.
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