Well well well - it has been about 2 years since my last tattoo and the urge to get another one, or two or even three is getting to be too much. I have been thinking about.........
*Ne Zha Design
I am torn between anime style or traditional Chinese cartoon style. I like them both Placing will most likely be on the calf or left shoulder.
Ne Zha, La Zha Nezha or whatever you call him is a figure from Chinese Mythology. (Chinese: 哪吒; pinyin: Nézhā; Japanese: Nataku or Nata) is a deity, the enfant terrible, trickster, originally of Buddhist Chinese mythology, though in the West he is perhaps more well known from Japanese anime. His official Taoist deity name is Zhongtan Yuanshuai (中壇元帥
or Nezha Qiansui (哪吒千歲
. Recent research traces the origin of the character to Nalakuvara.
Nezha is often depicted flying in the sky with a wheel of fire under each foot, a golden hoop, the "cosmic ring", around his shoulder and a spear in his hands. Sometimes he is given multiple arms. Nezha is usually depicted as a youth and rarely as an adult.
As the third son of a military commander called Li Jing, a military leader in Chentangguan Fortress, his birth was peculiar. When his mother Lady Yin got pregnant, she waited for three years and six months to deliver the boy, but unfortunately a ball of flesh was born. His father got so angry that he split it with a sword, which caused Nezha to jump out and grow fully, even though his mind and temperament were that of a child.
After he killed Li Gen, a yaksha, and Ao Bing, the third son of East Sea Dragon King Ao Guang, Nezha flayed and disemboweled himself in order to save his parents that were taken hostage by Ao Guang, but was brought back to life by his master, Taiyi Zhenren, a Taoist immortal sage who used lotus blossoms to reconstruct a body for his soul to inhabit.[1]
Nezha's two elder brothers are also powerful warriors. The eldest is Jinzha (金吒
, who is a disciple of Manjusri Bodhisattva, and the second eldest is Muzha (木吒
, a disciple of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.
Some traced his origins to the Vedic god Nalakuvara, and legend goes that he was born in the Shang dynasty.
* Beast of Bamburgh
I am from the north of England. I wanted a symol that shows this - not just some other crappy Celtic - I am NOT Scottish or irish so why the fiddlesticks would I want an Irish/Scottish symbol? I was also thinking of a letter from the Book of Kells but cannot find any renditions of the letters S and C. The Beast of Bamburgh - not one knows just what beast it depicts is an engraved creature seen on other Anglo-Saxon works of art that have been dated to the 7th century and is popularly known as the 'Bamburgh beast' ..
* Chinese Paper Cut
I want a Chinese paper cut, probably in red of the horse creature thingy.
I will post some more reference images of what I want when I can work out how!!! Some suggestions and/or feedback appreciated!
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