Orchid Tattoos – Representative of Many Different Ideas
Orchid Tattoos can be representative of so many different things within different cultures. From the Greek culture to the Asian culture, orchids are a symbol of perfection, love, family, and fertility. An orchid tattoo could take on the meaning of any of these in different cultures.In the Asian culture, the orchid represents fertility and refinement. When the symbol of the orchid is used in the Mah Jong tile game, it means rare and precious. When a woman is referred to as a human orchid, it means she possesses refined beauty, just like orchids do. Certainly it goes to follow that a woman bearing a tattoo of an orchid flower could be said to be possessing refined beauty.
The word orchid comes from the Greek word, orchis, which means testicle. This is because of the overall look of the tuber like of the orchid and the shape of the orchid's tuber. Greek women believed that they could control the sex of their unborn children by using roots of orchids. If the father consumed large amounts of large, new orchid roots, the child would be male, and if the mother ate small orchid roots, the child would be female. Because of this, orchids symbolize family and fertility. Thus, a tattoo of an orchid also symbolizes the same ideas.
The orchid is one of the largest flower families, with the most well-known orchids being the vanilla orchids. The Aztecs believed anyone drinking vanilla from an orchid mixed with chocolate was endowed with great strength. This makes the tattooing of a woman with an orchid to mean she is a strong woman. The paphiopedilum orchid was named after Phapos, a temple where the goddess Aphrodite was worshipped, thus giving the orchid an association meaning of love also.
When getting a tattoo depicting an orchid, it can mean so many things, as that's what an orchid is.
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