triskele

A triskelion (or triskele, from Greek τρισκελης "three-legged") is a symbol consisting of three bent human legs, or, more generally, three interlocked spirals (joined in such a way that the overall emblem has a threefold rotational symmetry, but no reflection symmetries).

 

Μια triskelion (ή triskele, από την ελληνική τρισκελης "τρία πόδια") είναι ένα σύμβολο που αποτελείται από τρία ανθρώπινα πόδια λυγισμένα, ή, γενικότερα, τρεις σπείρες συμπλέκονται (ένωσε με τέτοιο τρόπο ώστε η συνολική έμβλημα έχει μια τριπλή περιστροφική συμμετρία, αλλά δεν συμμετρίες αντανάκλαση)

A triskelion (or triskele, from Greek three-pronged "three legs") is a symbol consisting of three kinked human legs, or, more generally, three o'clock interwoven whorls (united in such a manner that the global emblem is a triple swirling symmetry but also no reflecting symmetry).

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  "Three Legs of Man", the national symbol of the Isle of Man

 

Heraldic triskele

 

The armoured triskelion on the flag of the Isle of Man

 

Coat of arms of Isle of Man

 

Manx car registration plate

 

The flag of Sicily, featuring the revived trinacria symbol

 

1945 Sicilian independence flag

 

Sicilian party emblem

 

Sicilian party flag

 

Füssen coat of arms

 

Coat of arms of Döhlau, Bavaria

 

Geometrically-simple triskelion of radial lines joined to arcs of enclosing circle

 

Coat of arms of Süderbrarup municipality in Schleswig-Holstein

 

Stained-glass window

 

Merovingian disk

 

Old Gotland picture stone

 

Coat of arms of Dukla, Poland

 

Coat of arms of Zakliczyn, Poland

 

Coat of arms of a Polish nobility clan

 

Modliborzyce, Poland

 

Old Cyclists' Touring Club emblem

 

Japanese Mon

 

Minheim

 

The flag of Ingushetia

 

Coat of arms of the Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine

 

Flag of Ust-Ord Buryatia (Russia)

 

Flag of Kumukh people

 

Modern form of triple spiral symbol, based on carvings found at Newgrange tomb, Ireland with three double spirals.

 

Alternative form of triple spiral symbol (thicker line).

 

Triple spiral symbol with three single spirals (i.e. triskele).

 

Spiral triskele, occasionally used as a Christian Trinitariansymbol

 

More elaborate spiral triskele

 

Elaborate spiral triskele with four turns in each spiral

 

"Wheeled" version of triskelion / triple-spiral

 

Basic "wheeled" spiral triskelion

 

Elaborate "wheeled" triskelion with three threefold spirals

 

Triskelion / Triple-spiral with hollow triangle in center

 

A triple-spiral labyrinth

 

The Roissy ring

 

BDSM rights flag

 

U.S. Department of Transportation

 

Hidari Mitsudomoe mon (Japan)

 

Flag of the Ryukyu Kingdom (-1875)

 

Flag of the Ryukyu Kingdom (1875-1879)

 

variant

 

Flag of Jeju-do, South Korea

 

Irish Air Corps roundel

 

Korean "Sam Taeguk" symbol

 

Alternate Sam-Taeguk

 

Martial arts symbol

 

Proposed "transcend gender" symbol

 

Man road sign

 

Crop circle

 

Altdorf, Bavaria

 

Coat of arms of Głogówek, Poland

 

Coat of arms of Stadt Haren

 

Japanese mon

 

Großräschen arms

 

Unofficial flag of Anguilla

 

Congo arms 2003

 

Triskelion in a sand sculpture

 

Legged triskele in a church in Estonia

 

AWB triskelion of three sevens

A   triskelion   (or   triskele , from Greek τρισκελης "three-legged") is a symbol consisting of three bent human legs, or, more generally, three interlocked spirals (joined in such a way that the overall emblem has a threefold rotational symmetry, but no reflection symmetries).   Μια triskelion ( ή ...» more Dogmeat