Angel tattoos rely on a belief that goes far back in history. For those intellectual types interested in words, our word for these creatures actually came from the ancient Greeks. Their word for it was similar to the name of that famous southern California city. Know which one I mean? But the Greeks obviously coined it first, and the word’s meaning is “messenger.” It is interesting to see what “angel tattoo” would look like in Greek. δερματοστιξία αγγÎλου. See? But that is modern Greek, as there was no word for tattoo in the ancient Greek. By the way, the Hebrew word for such a being, which is mal’akh, means messenger, just like Greek.
The First Design of Angel Tattoo
Angel tattoos rely on a belief that goes far back in history. For those intellectual types interested in words, our word for these creatures actually came from the ancient Greeks. Their word for it was similar to the name of that famous southern California city. Know which one I mean? But the Greeks obviously coined it first, and the word’s meaning is “messenger.” It is interesting to see what “angel tattoo” would look like in Greek. δερματοστιξία αγγÎλου. See? But that is modern Greek, as there was no word for tattoo in the ancient Greek. By the way, the Hebrew word for such a being, which is mal’akh, means messenger, just like Greek.
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