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[[File:Coa Illustration Cross Triquetra.svg|thumb|Interlaced form of Triquetra (not usually considered to be any form of "cross").<ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coa_Illustration_Cross_Triquetra.svg]</ref>]] | |||
The [[Triquetra]]; from the Latin adjective triquetrus "three-cornered" is a triangular figure composed of three interlaced arcs, or equivalently three overlapping vesicae piscis lens shapes. It is used as an ornamental design in architecture, and in medieval manuscript illumination (particularly in the Insular tradition). Its depiction as interlaced is common in Insular ornaments from about the 7th century. In this interpretation, the triquetra represents the topologically simplest possible knot. | The [[Triquetra]]; from the Latin adjective triquetrus "three-cornered" is a triangular figure composed of three interlaced arcs, or equivalently three overlapping vesicae piscis lens shapes. It is used as an ornamental design in architecture, and in medieval manuscript illumination (particularly in the Insular tradition). Its depiction as interlaced is common in Insular ornaments from about the 7th century. In this interpretation, the triquetra represents the topologically simplest possible knot. | ||
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==Buddhist tradition== | ==Buddhist tradition== | ||
The triquetra has been a known symbol in Japan called Musubi Mitsugashiwa. Being one of the forms of the Iakšaku dynasty signs, it reached Japan with the dynasty's Kāśyapīya spreading technology and Buddhism via the Kingdom of Khotan, China and Korea.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra Triquetra wiki]</ref> | The triquetra has been a known symbol in Japan called Musubi Mitsugashiwa. Being one of the forms of the Iakšaku dynasty signs, it reached Japan with the dynasty's Kāśyapīya spreading technology and Buddhism via the Kingdom of Khotan, China and Korea.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra Triquetra wiki]</ref> | ||
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