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Oak
The tree sacred to Atlas; its branches, like his arms, supported the heavens.
The oak’s association with Atlas implies a primeval tree cult or pillar cult, a memory
of it surviving in Kritias, Plato’s Atlantis account, when he described a ceremonial
column at the very midpoint of the Temple of Poseidon, itself located at the cen-
ter of Atlantis. The Atlanteans’ oldest, most hallowed laws were inscribed on its
exterior, and sacrificial bull’s blood was shed over it by all 10 kings of Atlantis in
that civilization’s premiere ritual.Oannes
Described in Babylonian myth as a bearded man dressed in a fish-like gown
who brought “The Tablets of Civilization” from his kingdom in the sea to the
Near East. The Maya preserved an almost identical tradition of Oa-ana, “he who
has his residence in the water.” Like his Mesopotamian counterpart, he was
considered an early culture-bearer who sparked Mesoamerican Civilization after
arriving with great wisdom from across the Atlantic Ocean. Both Oannes and
Oa-ana cross-reference Atlanteans landing on both sides of the world.