Historical Context and Cross-cultural Cognates
The Gankyil has been equated or conflated with similar Triskelion symbols.
Herbert V. Günther, when writing about Buddhist triunes, states that "...the magical number Three, so deeply rooted in our very being" and references this inference by citing the Russian mathematician V.V. Nalimov (1982: p. 165-168) who according to Gunther provides a concise presentation of why "all of us prefer the trinity: trilogy, triptych...".
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