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You may decide to get vine tattoos just because you consider them beautiful, or you may wish it to represent one of its historical meanings. Early Christians dismissed grapevines and ivy as pagan symbols. A grapevine crown was thought to be the symbol of the deadly sin of gluttony. Many Christian artists thought that the vine was representative of ascension and resurrection. Although the belief of some early Christians that vines were a pagan symbol, in the Bible Jesus calls himself the vine and says his followers are his branches. In modern Christian culture however, vines are thought to be symbols of bounty and peace.