This is the temple from the 1903 visionary/interpretive work Atlantis: The Book of the Angels (sometimes styled Atlantis, the Book of the Angels), which presents a dramatic, often grim account of pre-flood Atlantean civilization centered on the characters Azta (Tizin Azta, empress/queen figure), Tekthah, Huitza, and others.
Tekthah – The sacred symbol of Atlantis
Bridgman-Metchim’s 1900 book Atlantis: The Book of the Angels, it is that four-armed Cross: the victorious standard of Emperor Tekthah, later feared and venerated in every Temple of the Sun.
Within this tower was the drum and also within it was kept the victorious standard of the nation, the sacred symbol of victory — a Cross with four arms stretching horizontally, signifying the national prowess North, South, East and West — the old, rough rally-signal carried by the Emperor Tekthah from the North.
The Cross began as Tekthah’s rough rally-signal from the North.
In Bridgman-Metchim, the sacred symbol of Atlantis is Tekthah’s four-armed Cross.
Amaziel brought out from the central tower the sacred symbol of Atlantis, the four-armed Cross, that had led the nation under great Tekthah to its victorious empire, and with a shout lifted it towards the sky.
It is not proof that Bridgman-Metchim’s Tekthah standard is the same object as Mesoamerican crosses.
That directional reading soft-parallels Tekthah’s N/S/E/W prowess Cross.
The sacred symbol in that 1900 Atlantis narrative is Tekthah’s four-armed Cross, the victory standard later kept in each Temple of the Sun.
They do not prove that Tekthah’s Cross was dug at Tula.
In Bridgman-Metchim, Atlantis’s sacred symbol is the four-armed Tekthah Cross.
What was the sacred symbol of Atlantis?In Bridgman-Metchim’s Atlantis: The Book of the Angels (1900), it is the four-armed Cross, Tekthah’s victorious standard.
What did Tekthah’s cross mean?It signified national prowess to the North, South, East, and West.
It began as Tekthah’s rally-signal and later stood in every city’s Temple of the Sun as the sacred emblem of victory.
I treat those as labeled nineteenth-century hypotheses, not as proof that Tekthah’s standard is the same object.
The pyramid, the cross, and the Garden of Eden: Donnelly’s four rivers N/S/E/W as a directional parallel to Tekthah’s Cross.
Motives: The rebels are angry with the ruling class, above all Tekthah.
Tekthah This chapter sets up the politics.
Tekthah, the son of Lamech and brother of Noah, rules Atlantis with judges and legions.
Huitza marches out, and Tekthah is told something he does not want to hear.
The Feast of Death Tekthah and Shar-Jatal carry out their bloody plan at a feast in the Hall of Feasting.
After that, bad dreams haunt Tekthah.
The Passing of Tekthah Tekthah regrets it and fears the shade of Huitza.
And thus died Tekthah, Tzan of Atlantis.