Greece is not the only place where lightning bolts hold strong symbolism since many different cultures associate distinct meanings with lightning. Ancient Greeks also saw lightning as a sign of fertility because lightning comes with rain, a primary component of crops growing and mother earth being fertile. The lightning bolt symbolizes power and strength, intelligence, intuition, and spiritual enlightenment in Greek culture. Zeus’s lightning bolts were unpredictable, so this is the reason why lightning has been seen as a symbol of the unpredictable nature of humankind and the world in general. The Gods’ father is frequently represented as holding or throwing powerful lightning bolts, which symbolized his power over other Gods and man. Get a lightning tattoo, just try not to get it 1930s art-deco as per DDG’s suggestion.In history, lightning has been famously associated with the Gods, specifically the Greek god Zeus. He said he gets hassled for it occasinally but after he explains what it means to him people usually calm down. I met a guy in college who had a rune combination (I don’t remember which one) on his backpack which apparently was used by the Nazis. As to the OP, I don’t personally know of any racist connotations and add my support to what Duck Duck Goose said about them: the SS used a double lightning bolt that I believe was meant to be stylized SS’s.
Of course there’s not enough to work with using just that one quote. Would it be redundant for me to say I agree, wishbone seems a bit close-minded judging by the post. Who’s the person who’s making sweeping generalizations about people’s personalities and beliefs based on no other evidence than that they have a tattoo? That’s bigotry, Wish. **The only bigot I see in this thread is wishbone. (Do you think of nazis when you see images of Zeus with lightning bolts in hand?). If I’m not mistaken, I think there is a football team in some obscure league (maybe the Euro-NFL) that has lightning bolts on their helmet and they convey no ideas of racism. Just like with a swastika or a cross or anything else, the way the design is drawn will go a long way in how people may look at it. I know my Hindu friend Mitesh is not a racist yet among the ancient designs in his home is a swastika. However, there are countless other designs of swastikas which are not at all racist, yet certain nimrods might condemn you because of their limited scope. If you get a tattoo of a black swastika in a white cirlce surrounded by red, then you have a racist symbol. And there are plenty of those to go around. **Even if it’s not technically, do you think people would interpret it as one? **įirst, you probably shouldn’t give a crap what people think, particularly the ignorant. I told him my reasons for them, what they meant to me, and he was mollified. Only one person (a native American) assumed that they had racist connotations and from his perspective, they very well could be interpreted that way.
Only one person that I have met knew what they represented just by looking at them.
I have several tattoos, and am occasionally asked what they mean (they can be a bit enigmatic to the uninitiated). Whether these individuals are racists or not is a personal matter whether these symbols are meant to convey a racist message, or merely represent esprit decorps, is something you would have to ask the individual sporting this ink to clarify. As such, tattoos featuring these symbols are quite popular with the soldiers assigned to these units. The Seventh ATC (Army Training Command) is (or was it may have been inactivated with the military’s downsizing) was an “A” on a round patch, with a red-white-blue color scheme.Ĭertain special forces units, and the 25th Light Infantry Division (“Tropic Lightning”, based at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii) have the zig-zag stylized lightning bolt symbol in their unit crest. Some of our current and past military heraldry (unit crests and such) contain some of the very symbols mentioned above.
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