Galway High Cross Tattoo Design norway Mobius band of duality

Mobius band of duality

now united in this pattern of knots to cover his forearm in an integrated pattern

2300 years later

built of intersecting and carefully placed circles in a hexagonal pattern

The powerful alchemical symbol of the serpent eating its own tale is here rendered in intricate knot work and with the head of a Celtic beast from the 9th century Book of Kells

Galway High Cross Tattoo Design norway Mobius band of dualityDesigned using elements in the O'Connor high cross in the Ballinasloe graveyard in County Galway, Ireland, carved in the early 19th century by two generations of stonemasons in honor of their patriarch. Custom commission for his great great grandson.