TRINACRIA

In ancient times the name of Sicily was that of Triquetra or Trinacria. This is because, unlike the classic round shape of all the other islands, Sicily has a strange geographical configuration. It is characterized by three headlands, Pachino, Peloro and Lilibeo and three vertices that almost instinctively refer to the triangle. And it is probably in the Hellenistic period that the Greek culture, full of gods, demigods and mythological monsters, coined the symbol of the gorgon with three legs attached directly to the head, associating it slowly to our earth and the mysteries that enveloped it …