La Virgen de
Guadalupe is a Mexican saint. To some Mexicans she’s as important to them as
their own mother because she is known for protecting us from all bad and guiding
us to a good will. La Vigren de Guadalupe also known as Virgin Mary goes back
to the sixteenth century. According to the tradition Virgin Mary was first seen
by an indigenous man named Juan Diego, and she appeared to him to guide and
help Juan with a problem he had. La Virgen de Guadalupe image has always been
seen as a brown skin lady standing with her hands in a praying position, an
angel under her feet, clothing colored with Mexico’s flag colors, and rays of
sunlight that encircle her, but in this tattoo it only appears her upper body,
two birds by her side being fed by her, and rays of sunlight in the background creating
a cross on the middle of her chest. People believe in the Virgen de Guadalupe
for what she has done to them, so it could be from someone praying for her to
help them accomplish a dream to her protecting a loved one.
The colors in a tattoo have a
lot to tell from a tattoo. The colors used in this tattoo of Virgin Marry may
represent who that person is, and why he has that tattoo. There are two birds that
are colored white out of many beautiful colorful birds they had to be white.
The color white stands for purity,
innocence, wholeness and completion, so the white birds maybe represent his
soul. For it being that the person with this tattoo considers his soul in that
perspective, the yellowish reddish rays of sunlight behind Virgin Mary come to
play. The rays of sunlight are meant to be the guide for that person’s purity,
innocence, wholeness, and completion in life, and the rays also form a cross in
the middle of her chest saying that Jesus Christ is there too. In the tattoo
that’s what stands out the most to let you know that La Virgen de Guadalupe and
Jesus Chris there to guide you.
What’s happening in the tattoo kind of explains the religious
belief. In the tattoo Virgin Mary is either feeding them or giving them a
little branch to take with them for later on. What that is trying to show is
that when you look for her or pray to her, she helps you or gives you something
that will help you get what you are praying for. The bird on her left is flying
away with a piece of leaves that she gave him. This is how in the religious
belief she is always there to give us hope or something to guide use in our
life, so the bird taking the little branch is a way of letting us know she has
help this person with the tattoo. On the right side of her there is the other
bird that is standing on her shoulder leaning forward, so she can give the bird
some branch leaves. That shows she doesn't discriminate anyone, and La Virgen
de Guadalupe is there for every single one of us to help or guide us in
different kinds of ways.
The religious belief is what mostly explains why he got the
tattoo. The Virgin Mary is known as the mother of Jesus Christ and the mother
of all Catholics. Some people who grow up without a mother look up to her as a mother
figure. The tattoo shows what she has done for him; therefore, the tattoo is a
way of honoring her.
There will be many people who think tattoos are bad, but what
they don’t know is that tattoos have a significant to the person with a tattoo.
For this tattoo of La Virgen de Guadalupe it has its religious significant as
well as what that person has been through in life. The colors he has them with and what is going
on in the tattoo clearly stands for its religious belief.
