This account draws on biblical flood themes and presents a more dramatic, sacrificial, and visually intense temple than the meditative, unfed-light-focused Incalithlon in Oliver’s work.
The crowd rushes the woman, drags her into the nearby and once-sacred Incalithlon pyramid and tears her still-beating heart from her now bare chest with a dagger, tossing it into the Unfed Light’s quavering spade as her body is torn limb from limb, her flesh divided among the throng of people and consumed, her blood mixed with liquor and drunk by mad priests during these penultimate dark chapters of the Atlantean saga; a fate many captives of the Aztecs would be familiar with at the top of their pyramidal temples, whose living sacrifice through the tearing out of their still-beating hearts with an obsidian knife was said to appease the god Huitzilopochtli lest he “stop time.”
His great temple of Poseid is the Incalithlon, dedicated to Incal, the god of the Sun, in the capital Caiphul.
The Incalithlon looked like the Great Pyramid from outside, but had no windows.
Outwardly the Incalithlon was shaped like the Egyptian pyramid of Cheops, not quite so high, but covering an area of twice as great extent.
Goddess Incalithlon – A divine figure associated with the temple of the same name. The goddess materializes in the temple, providing spiritual guidance and reinforcing the religious beliefs of the Poseidii.
The Incalithlon, known as the Great Temple of Poseid, stood as the spiritual core of Atlantean society.
They affirmed divine intervention and guidance, as illustrated by the experiences of Zailm, a key figure and student at the Incalithlon's associated academy.
Incalithlon: The great temple where religious and ceremonial events occur, including the announcement of Zailm’s marriage.
Incalithlon: A ceremonial site or temple, likely associated with religious rites and connected to the worship of Incal.
They discuss visiting the temple of Incal (Incalithlon), and Zailm accompanies them.
Incalithlon - The great temple of Incal, where religious rituals and ceremonies are performed, including Zailm's adoption.
The only essential difference was that the curriculum at the Incalithlon, or College of Priests, embraced, in addition to every high-grade feature taught at the Xioquithlon, also the study of a wide range of occult phenomena, anthropological and sociological themes, to the end that graduates in the sciences might have the opportunity of fitting themselves to minister to any want, which men of less erudition and less comprehension of the great underlying laws of life might experience, in any phase or condition.
The Incalithlon was in fact the very highest, most complete institution of learning which the world knew then, or--pardon what may seem to be, but is not, Atlan conceit--has known since; and for that matter, will know for centuries to come.
The Incalithlon is the Great Temple of Poseid.
Zailm's experience shows this: the Goddess Incalithlon materializes before him.
The Incalithlon is one example.
Incalithlon: The Great Temple of Poseid, given to the worship of Incal, the sun god.
Incalithlon: The main temple in Poseid, given to Incal.
One of them is Zailm's experience of the Goddess Incalithlon materializing.
Goddess Incalithlon: A divine figure tied to the temple of the same name.
The Great Temple, the Incalithlon, is the spiritual center of Poseid.
In the Great Temple he sees the Goddess Incalithlon materialize.
He withdraws to the Incalithlon.