Satanic Sicily
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 11:37 am
Trisele (pronounced Trìscele, also triskele or triskell, also known by the Greek name of triskelion, in heraldic triquetra, with a more particular phrase, sometimes mistakenly trinacria) is a representation of a being with three legs (from the Greek τρισκελής) , simpler three intertwined spirals, or by extension another symbol with three protuberances and a triple rotational symmetry. The figure also gives its name to the symbol. The history of the ancient Triscele is articulated and complex and in some ways still shrouded in mystery because it is linked to mythology. According to scholars, it is an Indo symbol.
The triscele, as a symbol of Sicily, was initially the head of Gòrgone, whose hair is snakes, from which radiate three legs bent at the knee. La Gòrgone is a mythological character, which according to the Greek poet Hesiod was each of the three daughters of Forco and Ceto: Medusa (the gòrgone par excellence), Steno (the fort), Euriale (the spacious).
Another version of the head is that of a woman, perhaps a goddess, in some cases depicted with wings to indicate the eternal passing of time, surrounded by snakes to indicate wisdom. Later on the snakes were added wheat ears, meaning the fertility of the island's land (the snakes were replaced with wheat ears by the Romans to symbolize its status as a "granary" in Rome).
The triscele appeared on the scene before the Greek colonization of the island, but it was the Greeks who first called it Trinakìa (changed over time in Trinacrìa), from the Greek word: trinacrios, which means treis (tre) and àkra (promontories), from which also in the Latin trìquetra (with three vertices). The triscele, later, was adopted by the Greeks as a symbol of the Trinacria, which has remained a synonym for Sicily.
my personal consideration is that it strongly resembles the swastika
The triscele, as a symbol of Sicily, was initially the head of Gòrgone, whose hair is snakes, from which radiate three legs bent at the knee. La Gòrgone is a mythological character, which according to the Greek poet Hesiod was each of the three daughters of Forco and Ceto: Medusa (the gòrgone par excellence), Steno (the fort), Euriale (the spacious).
Another version of the head is that of a woman, perhaps a goddess, in some cases depicted with wings to indicate the eternal passing of time, surrounded by snakes to indicate wisdom. Later on the snakes were added wheat ears, meaning the fertility of the island's land (the snakes were replaced with wheat ears by the Romans to symbolize its status as a "granary" in Rome).
The triscele appeared on the scene before the Greek colonization of the island, but it was the Greeks who first called it Trinakìa (changed over time in Trinacrìa), from the Greek word: trinacrios, which means treis (tre) and àkra (promontories), from which also in the Latin trìquetra (with three vertices). The triscele, later, was adopted by the Greeks as a symbol of the Trinacria, which has remained a synonym for Sicily.
my personal consideration is that it strongly resembles the swastika