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5,000 year-old triskelion on an orthostat at Newgrange. The triple spiral symbol, or three-spiral volute, appears in many early cultures: the first appeared in Malta (4400–3600 BCE); the second in the astronomical calendar of the megalithic tomb of Newgrange in Ireland built around 3200 BCE; [13] as well as on Mycenaean vessels.
A volute is a spiral, scroll-like ornament that forms the basis of the Ionic order, found in the capital of the Ionic column. It was later incorporated into ...
Symbol Name Meaning SI unit of measure alpha: alpha particle: angular acceleration: radian per second squared (rad/s 2) fine-structure constant: unitless beta: velocity in terms of the speed of light c: unitless beta particle: gamma: Lorentz factor: unitless photon: gamma ray: shear strain: radian
For a spiral triskelion with a hollow triangle in the center, see Image:Triskele-hollow-triangle.svg. For versions of a triple-spiral labyrinth, see Image:Triple-Spiral-labyrinth.svg and Image:Triple-Spiral-labyrinth-variant.svg. SVG version of Image:Triple-Spiral-Symbol-filled.png. Converted from the following PostScript code:
The Triple Spiral symbol, based on motifs found at the prehistoric site at Newgrange, Ireland, and used as a neo-pagan or Triple Goddess symbol. This version is made up of mathematical Archimedean spirals .
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English: Version of the Triple Spiral symbol with thickened stroke width, so that the lines of each double Archimedean spiral are as wide as the spaces separating them. For a basic version of the triple spiral symbol, and links to further variants, see Image:Triple-Spiral-Symbol.svg.
A less wound version of Image:Triskele-Symbol-spiral.svg, with one and two thirds turns in each spiral, instead of two. For a more elaborate spiral triskelion symbol (with three turns), see Image:Triple-Spiral-Symbol-filled.svg, and for the most elaborate version, see Image:Triple-Spiral-Symbol-4turns-filled.svg.