Brendan the Navigator Tattoo with Celtic Waves Design gauntlet An upper arm half-sleeve featuring

An upper arm half-sleeve featuring a Tibetan spiral flame interlaced with Celtic knots that form a band around the arm

Wildlife experts confirm the old knowledge that ravens and wolves have been known to hunt together

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

By adding a second Celtic knotwork outer ring the pattern expands to fill the upper arm

The center of the cross is this evocative wheel

Brendan the Navigator Tattoo with Celtic Waves Design gauntlet An upper arm half-sleeve featuringSaint Brendan the Navigator, the brave voyager who sailed all the way to the Americas in a cowhide boat. Patron saint of all those who journey over the waves. The saint's depiction in the tattoo is a copy of an old wooden chair found inside the Cathedral of St. Brendan in Clonfert, Ireland. Around it are Pictish spirals representing the waves he journeyed over.