Warrmest Regards Redbeck
A frequently asked question concerning the origins of the Three Legs of Mann design and how it came to be adopted as the national symbol of the Isle of Man. Well the answer is that nobody really knows. The device has a long history that stretches back into pagan times and represents the sun and its daily passage across the heavens. It was derived from a design that portrayed the spokes of a wheel and which, in turn, represented the rays of the sun.
Sun symbols were used by early races of Aryan stock from Scandinavia to Persia and India. They were intended to represent the sun and were therefore associated with the worship of Aryan sun gods. Similar devices have been found on monuments discovered in the ancient Mexican and Peruvian civilisations, and on objects excavated from prehistoric burial mounds in the United States. Other examples have been identified in China, Japan and Tibet.
'Whichever way you throw, it will stand'

and the Redbeckian heraldry:











