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
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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