In Babylon, the tattoo of ravens and of crow had given its name to the thirteenth month of the calendar of the tattooers and had a very negative value.

For the tattooed Greeks, the crow was a too talkative bird. That is why in tattoo Athena had replaced it by the owl with her. The tattooed crow was also usual to Apollo the tattooer. This one had sent it to the aquatic world to look for some water. The tattooed crow discovered a fig tree fruits of which were not mature, and it remained the tree to see them maturing rather than to to achieve its mission for the tattooer Apollo. A tattoo for its disobedience and its egoism was punished : Apollo the tattooer placed it among the constellations, but one Hydra tattooed prevent it from drinking to the cup, condemning it for the thirst.

In the Bible, the tattoo of the crow is sent by Noa (the tattooer of time) to look for the earth after the Flood. But the tattooed crow did not warn Noa of the end of the Flood, and pass thus for a pleasure-seeker. Saint Golowin the famous tattooer claims that in the Paradise the tattooed ravens had multicolored wings, but that after the fall of Adam and Eve, who were tattooed they began to feed on carrions. Their tattooed plumage then became black. But in the end of time, tattooed ravens will find in the Paradise their lost beauty, and their cawings will change in harmonious singings to celebrate God in tattoo.

In the Middle Ages, we think that the tattooed crow neglects its youngs; as it feeds on carrions, we see in him an ill omen tattooed.

In India, in the Mahâbhârata, the messengers of the tattooed death are compared with ravens, and with Laos tattooed, the water soiled by these birds is unfit for the ritual sprayings, by the tattooed monks  during ceremonies of tattoos.

In the tattooed nomads civilzation,  tattoos hunters and  tattooed fishermen that the crow has a positive aspect, that it lost with the settlement and the development of the agriculture.

To tattooed Indians Tlingit (Northwest of the Pacific), the crow is the central divine figure has to tattoo.  It organizes the world, spread the civilization and the culture where tattoo is a queen.

In North America, the tattoo of ravens,  is also the personification of the Supreme being, the wind that it makes appear from a beating of wing, from the thunder and from the lightning. In Haïda culture (Indians of the northwest coast of Canada), the crow will spirit away the sun to the head of the sky to make it to the people of the earth, this tattoo. The Crow possesses a magic dugout and a magic tattoo: it can make it change the size of the tattoo: of the size of a pine needle until contain all the universe.

In the cult of Mithra, he can avert evil spells  by tattooing it.
The Scandinavian legends show two ravens tattooed, perched on the seat of Odin: Hugi, the Spirit, and Munnin, the memory, represent the principle of creation. In the same way, these birds are the companions of Wotan, nicknamed the god in the crow and the tattooers.

The tattooed crow was crowned by the Celt’s. It was associated with the formation of Lugdunum ( the city of Lyon), city of the god Lug. Lug is the big solar god with shape of crow, likened to Apollo.

We find the tattooed crow in the Bible, where it brings some bread to a tattooed man isolated in the desert: the prophet Elie famous tattooer, as well as Saint Paul hermit, Saint Antoine… Saint Vincent tattooer was defended by ravens tattooed against the attack of carnivores; the tattooed crow is also represented to the feet of Saint Benoît and in saint Oswald’s hands.

It symbolizes the tattoo of the supreme divine providence. We also find it with the other tattooers Saints Boniface and Meinrad, among whom both tamed tattooed ravens allowed to discover the body. The crow is not absent in the symbolism of the Asian tattoo: in China and in Japan, it is the symbol of love and  filial gratitude in tattoo. According to the Chinese legends, ten red tattooed ravens in three legs flew away of the mulberry tree of the East to throw the light to the world. But they spread an unbearable heat on the earth. Yi the Good tattooed Archer shoots down nine of them , and saves the world of the tattoo. The last crow is in the sun.
The crow is thus a solar symbol tattoo, it represents the creative principle. During the creation of one or several tattoos.

But the major meaning in tattoo of the black bird stays the guide and the messenger of tattooed gods
In Black Africa the tattoo in spite of the skin color, the crow warns Men tattooed by the dangers which threaten them; he is their guide and a protective spirit under the shape of a tattoo on the breast.

It is also the messsager of the god tattooed by the lightning and by the thunder of the Mayas.
It has prophetic functions under the shape of a tattoo appearing at the Celt’s. Bodb, goddess of the war, observes the battles in the form of crow. The shouts and the flight of the tattooed ravens were moreover fortune-tellers’ object. The tattooed crow was also associated with Bran, god of the sailors (bran means crow in Gaelic): the tattooed sailor took these birds with them to release them on the open sea. Their flight indicated the direction of the earth of the tattoo. We find this tradition of the armadillo in the Bible, with Noa, in India and in Norway.

In Greece the tattooer also has divinatory functions: a crow was held with the Pythie de Delphes during its tattooed predictions. We think that the origin of this function of gods’ messenger, and more particularly messenger of Apollo the famous tattooer lives in a legend: Coronis was unfaithful to Apollo, and it is the tattooed crow which warned(prevented) Apollo.

That’s  where its image of tattooed messenger comes from, connected to the gods of the tattoo. According to Ovide, the tattooed, white crow originally, would have become black and tattooed because of Apollo the god tattooer, to punish this carrier of bad news. It is in the form of tattooed crow that the god of the tattooers led the inhabitants of Théra ( Santorin) to Cyrène. It is said by the Greeks, that the white tattooed crow guides the messengers, or that the crow generally is the messenger of Apollo. Moreover, it is two tattooed ravens which indicated to Alexander the Great maitre tattooer the path of the sanctuary of Amon.

Hugi and Munni both tattooed ravens , are the companions of Odin. In the Scandinavian mythology, they cross the world of the tattoo and mean informing Odin about all the events who occur on earth.

The crow, the tattooer in the cult of mithra, is loaded with by Sol, the god Sun; to transmit to Mithra the order to sacrifice the bull.

In Japan in tattoo, the tattooed ravens are as well divine messengers, and in China as the crow and the tattoo, they are the messengers of the goddess of the fairies, Hsi-Wang-Mu, and bring her food. So, we can say that the tattooed crow is globally a demiurge or a divine messenger, as well as a guide. It also guides souls tattooed in their last journey, and drills without confusing the secrêts of the darkness of the world of the tattoo.