The carnation flower tattoo has different meanings depending on the design, it can be big or small – it is a symbol of love and hobby! A love talisman in Italy – a talisman that will protect the lover from all troubles and misfortunes!
The simple carnation tattoo also means fidelity. The purple or red carnation tattoo has the meaning of ardent love and passion! The Yellow carnation tattoo is a neglect or refusal sign and means disrespect. White carnation tattoo – means a grief sign, motley means unshakable virtue means, it also has the meaning of pure, raised love! The pink carnation tattoo has a meaning of a woman’s love, mother’s love, “I’ll never forget you”.
Traditional carnation tattoo design is a sign of courageous, unexpected decisions, people deprived of stereotypes, people of wide soul prefer to make such a tattoo! Also, people who are keeping up to date! Carnation is a plant that symbolizes the Christian understanding of love. Its name comes from Greek «Decorate with Flowers». The zodiac equivalent of carnation is Scorpion.blackand grey carnation
Legends about carnation flower
The carnation as other flower tattoos also can tell about absolutely different feelings. There are a lot of myths about carnation. And here is one of them.
Once goddess Diana coming back from unsuccessful hunting has been so angered that, having met on the fringe of the forest, a charming herd boy playing on pipe she at once blamed him in her failure and cried that because of his music all the fowl ran away up and the hunting failure.
And how many times the young man told her that he was not guilty, how many times he did not beg her about mercy the goddess did not hear him. Being very furious, she snatched on the herd boy and pulled out his eyes. And when she calmed down, the repentance started to torment, but it was already impossible to do something.
It was late! And then Diana decided to immortalize the memory of the young man and somehow to right a wrong. She threw young man’s eyes on a footpath and at the very moment, two red carnations have grown from them, reminding the innocently spilled blood by their color.
Here is such a sad story about anger and repentance. The story about death and about birth. The poor young man could not even think that the memory about him will be immortalized by gods, will be immortalized in carnation flowers!
According to a Christian legend, the carnation has blossomed on that day when Jesus was born. For a long time, it was used at wedding ceremonies, symbolizing marriage relations. The tattoo of a pink carnation is interpreted as tears of Maiden Maria, therefore it symbolizes motherhood.
Carnation symbols meaning in different countries
In the culture of the new time, the carnation tattoo was considered as «fire flower», «a struggling flower». So, in Australia during processions in memory of revolutionaries of 1848, the demonstrators bore red carnations. Victims of the French revolution in 1793, going on the scaffold, decorated their clothes with carnations. During the period of Jacobin terror, this flower was called “a horror carnation».
Italians considered carnation as an attribute of Apostle Peter. In Germany, the carnation was used as a sign of memory of feats of crusaders. In the Russian revolutionary semiotics, the carnation was a sign of the spilled blood. If the rose symbolized sacred blood the carnation had a more terrestrial shade. In some countries of Europe, the carnation today is a talisman of love, a sign of the body’s beauty.
Carnation flower tattoo designs and ideas
