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Sacred Heart

The Sacred Heart, drawn as a traditional tattoo subject. SHIPPED BARE - one fetched attestation, and it is bare list membership: “Panthers, flames, daggers, skulls, snakes, butterflies, tiger’s heads, the sacred heart, the Rock of Ages… are presented in single plates or as flashes distributed on the same plate.” A NEAR-MISS IS RECORDED RATHER THAN USED: a headline naming women and sacred hearts in one artist's traditional work appears in the corpus too, but only inside a YOU MAY ALSO LIKE navigation block on an unrelated page. That is not body content, it is not cited, and it is deliberately NOT quoted here - a quotation in this corpus means the row cites the page the words are on, and this row does not. It is a Catholic devotional image of a living faith; no meaning edge is written and the devotional content is routed to T11.10. Registered so the term resolves rather than silently generating.
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Unverifiedneeds cultural review

0 attested · 1 promoted1 source · T2

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What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
religious_object
Common styles
american traditional
Common themes
faith
Cultural flags
Catholic devotional image; meaning routed to T11.10; single Tier 2 list-membership attestation

Provenance

1 resolved

  • The lines of Traditional by Mors (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Maggie Whales interviewing the tattoo artist Mors, Tattoo Life

    Artist interview. The interviewer describes the subjects Mors tattoos as "roses, skulls, eagles, panthers… and mandalas"; Mors himself lists his classic design panel as "tigers, panthers, snakes, roses, mandalas, torch, eagles" and says "I do love animals in general: big cats, tigers, panthers, eagles, snakes, moth." A practising artist naming a working motif vocabulary in his own words - used for motif EXISTENCE and style association only, never for symbolic meaning, which the interview does not discuss.

    artist interview · published 2024-04-15 · retrieved 2026-08-29

Related concepts

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  • → outgoingAmerican TraditionalStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationneeds cultural review

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_sacred_heart ('american traditional'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.