Elenco Unalome Lotus Seno - At first sight, unalome designs can look like cute and insignificant doodles, but in fact, the history of the unalome symbol is both meaningful and mysterious! The spiral symbolizes the various twists and turns that we experience throughout our lives while the straight line represents nirvana or the moment we reach harmony. The bottom spiral illustrates the struggle with life, struggle that gets thinner as one progress on the path and finally reaches the enlightenment or nibbana (nirvana). Nº of tattoos 3 size 3.2 in / 8 cm (height) the unalome symbol represents the crown of the arhat, the enlightened saints in buddhist culture. The unalome is originally a hindu symbol that graphically recalls shiva s third eye and it represents wisdom and the path to perfection spiral indicates the beginning of the path without the knowledge or a clear direction learning through the inevitable mistakes it finally becomes a straight line and leads to enlightenment often represented as a point or a circle sun or lotus.