Purchased this at Babbo's on Prospect Park West last year and have barely cracked it, although I find it an especially fun subject for bibliomancy. It has no reference for triskelion as such, but the triskele is mentioned under the heading "tripod," the most popular name for three-legged dogs. In his definition he suggests a dreamy tableaux including what he calls the three solar moments. It would have, and maybe it did, and maybe it will, make a beautiful subject for an installation of Daguerre-type dioramas.
Tripod Donteville regards this as a solar symbol, not because it has a circular top but because of the three supports which can be said to correspond to the three solar 'moments'–the rising, the zenith and the setting. The symbolic figure of the triskeles–three legs joined together to form a kind of swastika–is similar in meaning according to Contenvile, but Ortiz holds that t is expressive of 'swift movement.'
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