tattoo post #1 - the fitting
Sep. 12th, 2007 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thoreauToday I went and saw Iggy at Idle Hand and we did a fitting for the tattoo design. I am so freakin' excited to get this done on Tuesday! EEP!
Why is the tattoo I've chosen a Haida Killer Whale. Why? I am a child of the ocean - and I've always felt at home on or in or under the ocean - it's one of the primary reasons I left Boise and moved to California... was to be back by the ocean.
Haida legend says that the orca are an ancient race of people that so loved the ocean and it's life force that the thunderbird granted their wish and transformed them into "whale people" or "Sgaana xaaydagaay" in the Haida language. In this design the thunderbird is represented in the dorsal fin - which is the traditional formline drawing of the thunderbird mask.
I am blessed - and it's the perfect thing to mark myself with permanently - and celebrate my 40th birthday.
Why is the tattoo I've chosen a Haida Killer Whale. Why? I am a child of the ocean - and I've always felt at home on or in or under the ocean - it's one of the primary reasons I left Boise and moved to California... was to be back by the ocean.
Haida legend says that the orca are an ancient race of people that so loved the ocean and it's life force that the thunderbird granted their wish and transformed them into "whale people" or "Sgaana xaaydagaay" in the Haida language. In this design the thunderbird is represented in the dorsal fin - which is the traditional formline drawing of the thunderbird mask.
I am blessed - and it's the perfect thing to mark myself with permanently - and celebrate my 40th birthday.
