"In Sicily, the first inhabitants mentioned in history are
the tribes of the Sicani (Greek Sikanoi) and the Sicels (Greek Sikeloi), who
have given Sicily its more familiar modern "The symbol dates back to when
Sicily was part of Magna Graecia, the colonial extension of Greece beyond the
Aegean. Pliny the Elder attributes the origin of the triskelion of Sicily to
the triangular form of the island, the ancient Trinacria. The triskelion was
revived, as an emblem for the new Napoleonic Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, by
Joachim Murat in 1808.
The center head, complete with snakes for hair, is that of
Medusa.
In an earlier blog for Sicilia Bedda. sung by Giuseppe di
Stefano.
explains the consonant shift from D to L to change Medus
to Melusina
