Sun Tattoo
Let’s talk about Uta’s chest tattoo: the sun. The sun is the 19th card in the Tarot deck (I also read that Uta’s trump card is the 19th in the TG trump card deck, but I am not sure). The sun card is the most happy and positive in the deck. It represents joy, happiness and contentment. It symbolizes children - drawing closer to a child (Kaneki?). It also symbolizes fun, vitality, warmth, self-expression, and success. The sun is an image of optimism and fulfillment. It represents the source of life itself.
In upright position the card represents success, radiance and abundance. It gives strength, positive energy, happiness, joy, brings warmth to others, confidence, luck, wellness, enthusiasm, simplicity, freedom and liberation.
In the reversed position it represents temporary depression and lack of success.
On the card there is an image of a naked child - this means that he has nothing to hide (we know that Uta doesn’t hide many things, like the fact that he’s a ghoul).
There are some flowers that symbolize the sun. These are: lotus, rose, sunflower and chrysanthemum. If you look at Uta’s tattoo designs, many of them happen to resemble these flowers.
Now let’s talk about the sun symbols. The sun is represented by circles!
Uta has various circle designs in his tattoos. The circle means unity, wholeness, goddess, female power, and of course, the Sun. Various traditions linked the circle to the world serpent, the ouroboros. The ouroboros symbolizes eternity and the cycles of life (coincidentally Uta has two serpents tattooed on his right arm).
In addition, Uta has various tattoos of circumpunct (circles with dots in the center). This represents the sun and the sun god Ra.These also symbolize gold, an unbiblical archangel named in Kabbalah, emotional restraints and a creative mind. It symbolizes the blending of female and male forces.
His chest tattoo has what seems to be two pillars in the center of the design. The pillars (as said before) represent the knowledge needed to gain immortality. In the Death tarot card, two pillars are guarding the gateway to the sun. They could also be serpents. These represent rebirth, protection against evil, sexuality, rain and fertility.
A fun fact: Uta’s sun tattoo has 8 long points sticking out. Uta’s trump card is the 8 of diamonds. Also, the two serpents on his right arm intertwines into an 8.
And a little endnote: sun tattoos symbolize life, strength, power, energy and rebirth
so cool...
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