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The Holy Trinity

The Christian doctrine of one God in three persons. Attested for the eye placed within a triangle in Christian iconography, from which the source says it was brought onto skin.
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  • Maggie Whales, Tattoo Life

    Tattoo magazine feature. Verbatim: "One of the most common subject in tattooing is certainly the occult eye, the one that sees all and is associated with Freemasonry." (the singular 'subject' is the source's own); "But even earlier the eye was present in Christian iconography, placed within the triangle with reference to the Holy Trinity."; "With a tear, it is very commonly used in the Chicano style to indicate repentance."; and "In some Neo Traditional interpretations, the eye loses all human connotations and becomes a door to alien souls, devoid of feeling." It also states the plurality principle outright: the eye "can be depicted in many different and personal ways, depending on the style of the artist and on the will and meaning that the wearer wishes to give it." For the face it records that "in a realistic portrait, it is the face element that has to convey all the expressiveness of the person being portrayed".

    industry source · published 2022-05-03 · retrieved 2026-08-30

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  • ← incomingEyeMotifAttested
    strength 0.50needs cultural review

    CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHIC CONTEXT, and SHAPE-CONDITIONAL - the eye within a triangle. The source: "But even earlier the eye was present in Christian iconography, placed within the triangle with reference to the Holy Trinity." Flagged: Christianity is a living religion and this is a doctrinal referent, not an aesthetic one.