Pictish Warrior Tattoo Design salmon the first letter of Theos

the first letter of Theos

which legend says was made at Camelot

For some bird species pair-bonding lasts a lifetime

Drawn from a photograph

and this beautiful pattern was designed specifically for that placement

Pictish Warrior Tattoo Design salmon the first letter of TheosAn example of the way the sacred spirals of the Celts were once painted onto the skin with woad before battle, a perfect way to add large area coverage in color. While we cannot know exactly what tattoos the woad warriors would have worn, we can surmise that they would have copied the spirals found on contemporary stone carvings, all that we now have left to document the mysterious race of the Picts.