Thursday, March 20, 2008

The New Tat

I've been asked quite a bit about getting a new tattoo, since as you all know I have one in Ruby's honor, which is fairly prominent on my arm. It seems quite unlikely that I could get away with not getting one of similar size and prominence in honor of the little boy. Here is a picture of us getting it done. It's a very stylized rendition of her birth date in the Aztec calendar, which is the Year of the Rabbit, the Month of the Monkey, and the Day of the Wind.

So, there are three obvious options for a tattoo on my left forearm dedicated to the boy;
First, a nice, fat Virgin of Guadalupe. Perhaps a Robot Virgin. Or a Virgin of Death.

The second option, of course would be a nice cool glass of Porter. But the third option seems the most likely at this point. His birth date according to the Aztec calendar is the Year of the Flint Stone, the month of the Wind, and the Day of the Deer, in order below.

Tecpatl Ehecatl Mazatl

At least a part why this is the frontrunner is that these would work quite well. The Ruby tattoo has a circular flow to it that would be a very natural fit for the Wind element to be in the middle of a new tattoo. The Flint Stone may be a bit of a challenge, but the deer would be natural complement to the rabbit on Ruby's.

In any case, I have put some thought into it, and have some ideas, obviously, but they may change by the time I get around to actually doing it...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

How about the Virgin riding a deer with a flint stone in one hand, a pint of porter in the other and the wind blowing all around??