🔱 <--- Trident meanings [skimmed from Wikipedia]...

🔱 = A three-pronged spear.

🔱 = Tool of Poseidon (Greek) or Neptune (Roman) used for the protection of the sea realms,

Latin word = fuscina, tridens or tridentis: tri meaning "three" and dentes meaning "teeth", referring specifically to the three prongs, or "teeth", of the weapon.

🔱 = Shiva's weapon (In Hinduism) and is known as a trishula (Sanskrit for "triple-spear").

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Hindu Religion
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In Hindu legends and stories Shiva, the Hindu god uses a trishula as his principal weapon.

The trident is also said to represent three gunas mentioned in Indian Vedic philosophy namely sāttvika, rājasika, and tāmasika.

In Samkhya philosophy, a guṇa is one of 3 "tendencies, qualities": sattva, rajas and tamas.

This category of qualities has been widely adopted by various schools of Hinduism for categorizing behavior and natural phenomena. The three qualities are:

1● Sattva is the quality of balance, harmony, goodness, purity, universalizing, holistic, constructive, creative, building, positive attitude, luminous, serenity, being-ness, peaceful, virtuous.[3][5][6]

2● Rajas is the quality of passion, activity, neither good nor bad and sometimes either, self-centeredness, egoistic, individualizing, driven, moving, dynamic.[7][8]

3● Tamas is the quality of imbalance, disorder, chaos, anxiety, impure, destructive, delusion, negative, dull or inactive, apathy, inertia or lethargy, violent, vicious, ignorant

The goddess Kali is sometimes portrayed with a trident as well.[22]

A weapon of South-East Asian (particularly Thai) depiction of Hanuman, a character of Ramayana.

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Army context:
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⚫ "Coat of arms" = 🔱 Trident for 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇺🇦 🔱 + medieval story behind it
⚫ Flag of Barbados incorporates a Trident.
⚫ Britannia is the national personification of Britain as a helmeted female warrior holding a trident and shield.
⚫ And for various Navy forces
Political and Military insignia.

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In Taoism
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It was held that "The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced All things."

It is generally agreed by Taoist scholars that Tao produced One means Wuji produced Taiji, and One produced Two means Taiji produced Yin and Yang [or Liangyi (兩儀) in scholastic term]. However, the subject of how Two produced Three has remained a popular debate among Taoist scholars. Most scholars believe that it refers to the Interaction between Yin and Yang, with the presence of Chi, or life force.