Triskelion

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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).

  • "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

  • Iron Age Castro culture triskele, reused in a barn. Airavella, Allariz, Galicia

  • 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 ("Three Fans in Circle")

  • 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 Trinitarian symbol

  • 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

  • Japanese mon ("Three Tomoe Clockwise")

  • 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 ("Three Monkeys")

  • 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

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