These days, we see the symbol of the skull emblazoned on everything from toddler socks nightclub wear. In every American mall, youth specialty store or discount store, the image can be in many forms. Jewelry, jackets, t-shirts and other clothing sparkling with Rhinestones or other artistic images. Heads are not not just for Halloween, more!
Why all the interest? Skulls are hardly a sign of rebellion or devil worship, nowadays. Once a powerful symbol of death and intellectualism, the bony remains of the human head are now cliche, perhaps even boring. Also mainstream for a true biker and and so common, even in the many artistic performances, that it does not conform to even the morbid curiosity of your average grade school student.
Skull images has long associated with death and transcendence; human spirituality, if you will. It is a reminder of our mortality, the transient nature of life and by its existence after the end of chronological life, the limitations of human knowledge and insight.
Skulls have also gotten magical properties and religious meaning in the whole of humanity of existence. Skull necklaces are worn by people of many cultures to ward off evil deities, or alternatively, by the gods themselves, to communicate wrath and misfortune to those who oppose them. Christians associate skulls penitent Holiness and the washing away of human sin. Freemasons can the emblem symbolize their organization hierarchy, next to the transience of materialism.
Interestingly, the bones of the human head more often expressed as icons of happiness or resurrection, then bad luck. The accident of death is eventually followed by the possibility of final liberation in native American and Mexican folklore. The day of the dead, a popular Mexican tradition, celebrates the passing of ancestors and relatives, by wearing skulls in jewelry, as well as cranial consumption in fabulous morbid cakes! Along the same lines, can be used as a talisman skulls, believed to reverse bad luck and happiness symbolize in adversity, similar to black cats and the number seven, in lore gambling gambling.
Most of us know skulls as emblems of danger, as depicted on a bottle of poison; as depicted on the entrance of Nazi death camps or fear, hatred expressed by the iconograpy of apocolyptic displayed on tee-shirts. This symbolic artistry can no longer inspires horror but still draw attention to a large number of social causes or antisocial fear, so wear your skulls pride and let the rest of us guessing to your message!
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