It shall perish because of its iniquity, and the waters of Atl shall roll above it!
On the shores of Miti was a considerable population, and one city of no small size, colonists all, from Atl.”
Alas, poor Atl!
The root "atl", meaning water, comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, not from Greek or Arabic.
In Nahuatl, "atl" simply means water.
As a symbol of water, "atl" can serve as a metaphor for Atlantis, a civilization said to have been surrounded by water and finally swallowed by it.
"Atl" as "water" is not Greek, but the sea is central to the Atlantis myth, which makes the coincidence intriguing.
The likeness between "atl" (water), Atlantis and al-Atlal (ruins) may reflect this shared symbolic weight.
If Plato's Atlantis story came from Egypt, and the Nahuatl "atl" from Mesoamerica, both may draw independently on universal myths of destruction by water, such as floods and deluges.
The Nahuatl "atl", meaning water, probably has no direct link to the origin of the name Atlantis, but the shared theme of water is striking.
He mentions Atlantis, known as "Atl" which has connections to both the Atlantic and Yucatan regions, and references other sunken lands in the Pacific, like Kashkara, which is noted in Hopi traditions.
75.) While the famous Mexican calendar stone shows that the sun was commonly called tonatiuh but when it was referred to as the god of the Deluge it was then called Atl-tona-ti-uh, or At-onatiuh.
The Toltec root for water is Atl; the Peruvian word for copper is Anti (from which, probably, the Andes derived their name, as there was a province of Anti on their slopes): may it not be that the name of Atlantis is derived from these originals, and signified the copper island, or the copper mountains in the sea?
But in the Nahuatl language we find immediately the radical a, atl, which signifies water, war, and the top of the head.
And there is wanting neither a catastrophe--for Xibalba had a terrific inundation--nor the name of Atlas, of which the etymology is found only in the Nahuatl tongue: it comes from atl, water; and we know that a city of Atlan (near the water) still existed on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus of Panama at the time of the Conquest."
"This is the sun called Nahui-atl, '4 water.' Now the water was tranquil for forty years, plus twelve, and men lived for the third and fourth times.
When the sun Nahui-atl came there had passed away four hundred years, plus two ages, plus seventy-six years.
"And that year was that of cé-calli, '1 house,' and the day Nahui-atl all was lost.
15.) We find the root Na repeated in the name of this Central American Noah, Na-ta, and probably in the word "Na-hui-atl"--the age of water.
There you will find represented the Flood, and with great emphasis, by the accumulation of all those symbols with which the ancient Mexicans conveyed the idea of water: a tub of standing water, drops springing out--not two, as heretofore in the symbol for Atl, water--but four drops; the picture for moisture, a snail; above, a crocodile, the king ofCALENDAR STONECALENDAR STONEthe rivers.
I concluded to lease the place, for I learned that "all conveniences" meant vailx transportation, telephotic (naim) service, and a caloriveyant instrument, which latter would save fuel, energy to be converted into heat for cooking and other purposes being transmitted by the "Navaza," a range of material forces denominated in these thy modem days "earth-currents," but also including those of the higher ether, a range which ye shall yet find and utilize as did Atl, for are ye not Poseid returned?
Atl - The ocean referenced in a prophecy, foretold to eventually cover the land of Poseid.
Atl - Refers to the capital city and possibly the larger nation or region where the Poseidi lived.
But some went over the ocean to Umaur, or to Incalia, that is, South or North America, respectively; others went only to the more distant provinces in Atl itself.