Snake Tattoo Designs

The snake is one of the most iconic images in tattooing both in modern and ancient cultures alike, and as such snake tattoos have been quite popular for many decades. Surprisingly despite this, snakes have often been as a female symbol in many cultures. Snakes as a female symbol tend to represent wisdom. This is why snakes are becoming increasingly popular among women, though most see them as still a mainly tattoo design. The popularity of snake tattoos among men is due to the vicious nature, their ability to kill with one bite, and the amount of strength they possess in order to strangle their victims. Since then numerous interpretations of the symbol have been created but none have been as pervasive as the original. Though alchemists used to use the symbol as well as a symbol of their opus or the triumph of their work, this usually referred to turning metal into gold or the creation of a philosopher’s stone