There are many varieties of Lily flower – stargazer lily, tiger lily, spider lily, and many others, so there are many meanings of Lily flower tattoo. The lily flower tattoo – in the West has the same symbolic meaning, like a lotus tattoo in the East. Lily tattoo on one stalk means virginity, revival, and immortality.
Lily flower tattoo has the meaning of cleanliness, rest, revival, and royalty. It is devoted to all Virgin Goddesses, Mother, to the Common. Besides, the lily flower personified fruitfulness of the Goddess of the Earth, and subsequently the gods of the Sky.
The white lily tattoo means cleanliness of thoughts, naivety, and the tenderness of nature. If you possess such qualities, this is your tattoo. The lily tattoo surrounded by thorns, means Immaculate Conception, the cleanliness among the sins of our world. It is an emblem of sacred Anthony of Padua, Francis of Assisi, Casimir, Catherine of Siena, Clara, Dominic, Evfinia, Francis Xavier, Joseph.
Lily tattoo can have different designs, it can be stargazer lily, tiger lily, spider lily, 3D lily picture, vine, simple single flower, tiny and small, big, or watercolor lily tattoo. Such a tattoo can have a huge variety of colors, but the most common are white, black and white, purple, black and grey, blue, pink, orange, red, or yellow.
It can be made on different parts of the body shoulder, sleeve, wrist, arm, foot, side, hand, cover-up, leg, rib, forearm, hip, ankle, thigh, neck, back or cover up a big part of the body. Here you can find images of different lily flower tattoo designs and ideas. Lily is not just a female tattoo it suits well for girls, women, guys, and men.
The lily tattoo represented on one part, and a sword on another, means accordingly, innocence and fault.
Lily is a flower of greatness and, glories, but not only this, almost; any bouquet of the bride does not manage without lilies now. It is because lily is a flower of “heavenly happiness”, the marriage bed of Zeus and Gera was covered with lilies.
Lily flower meaning in different cultures
The lily flower is a symbol of the world and purity in Russia, a symbol of hope in Ancient Greece. And in France, these flowers designate justice, mercy, and compassion. During ancient times people worshipped to lilies as to one of the finest creations on the Earth. “Let your way will be covered by roses and lilies” – so sounded the well-being wish.
This is one of the most ambiguous symbols among flowers it is identified with Christian religiousness, cleanliness, innocence, but also, in old traditions, associated with fertility and erotic love because of its pestle similar to the phallus and specific aroma. In Christian art, there are pictures of white lilies which in the XIX century were named “Madonna” – in association with Maiden Maria (the lily was also the attribute of her betrothed Joseph and many other Sacred).
They were often imaged in a vase or in hands of Archangel Gabriel in the scenes of Annunciation. Fine lilies in a valley have the same symbolism. As one of the most preferable garden flowers in ancient times, lilies were considered as the legendary flowers: because they grew from the milk of the goddess of Earth Gera. Lilies were connected with fertility not only in Greece but also in Egypt and everywhere in the Near East where they were a popular motive in patterns and pictures.
Lilies symbolized prosperity and the royalty in Byzantium, and, most likely this fact, instead of connection with cleanliness, was at the reason of the fact that lilies became an emblem of France. The emblematic meaning of lily in images of the Christian sacred occurs basically from the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus used the well-known “Lily fields” as an allegory of how the God will remunerate those who refused the thirst of a profit (the Gospel from Matthew, 6:28-30), however, now anemones are considered as these flowers.
One more bible mention (The Song of Songs of Solomon, 1:2) is a comparison, of lips of beloved with lilies, possibly red. White lilies can sometimes have the meaning of death as well as cleanliness, and they are often represented as a sign of fast death. A water lily (lotus) is absolutely different plant with wider symbolical meaning.
At Jews, the lily means trust to the Lord and is an emblem of Judas’s knee. In Islamic symbolic, the lily can be replaced with hyacinth. In Minoan culture, the lily is the main attribute of the goddess Britomartis. In the Summer-Semitic tradition, the lily means fertility and fruitfulness.
Lily flower tattoo designs and ideas
