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LA Ink: Born as Ghosts skull and Circle of Life dragon tattoos

Re-broadcast on Sunday night (and no doubt many times to come), the first episode of the new season of Miami LA Ink features several tattoos with spiritual roots. Here are two.

First, Eric Balfour's skull tattoo drawn from the Mexican folk art:

 Files 2007 08 Ep1-2

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And below, the Ouroboros tattoo, patterned after the symbol described on the show as the circle-of-life-dragon-eating-its-tail:

 Wikipedia Commons F Fa Ouroboros

 Files 2007 08 Ep1-5

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