The Motto of Atlantis

 If indeed the name of the lost city of Atlantis

 is actually the motto of the lost city of Aqua Terra,

 then the motto would be  -

                    "Ad Lantis"

                    "Ad    Lan    -    tis"

                    

                    "To       ?      -     you (present) plural"        in Latin 

So, what does    "Lan"    mean, as this seems to have slipped out of use in the Latin language 

early on. 

However, I think it has survived in a few English words, notably -

                    Lantern

                    Land

and              Lanyard

                  Lanyard (pictured left)

                  This is probably the best place to start looking

                  for a meaning, and it can be split into -

                            Lan    -    yard

            

                  It could mean a yard (metre) of    ?

                  Lanyards can be used in a variety of situations,

                  including on ships.

Land
Verb  -  To Land

This can be split into  -

            Lan    -    d

              ?       -    complete / finish

 The act of securing a ship to the dock at the 

 completion of a voyage. Maybe even calling out

 to their superior on the ship,

                                                                                                 "Lan  de"

                                                                                  To let them know the ship was secure.

                                                                                  Land

                                                                                  Noun  -  Dry Land

                                                                                  The verb above could easily have become used

                                                                                  as a noun to mean the dry land that the ship is 

                                                                                  moored to.

               Lantern  

               This can be split into  -

    

                        Lan    -    t    -    e    -    r    -    n

                          ?       -  end    he/it     are       in

                    

                          ?       -  end in a container

What do all these things have in common ?

                    Rope                                 (Rope can come in many different widths - fine to coarse)

So, it is quite possible that,

                    Lan

is an early word for rope.

That would make the motto of Aqua Terra,

                    To Rope You 

This doesn't mean a lot 

until you remember that the city early on 

was based on the Cult of the Bull.

Having spent time as a jilleroo

on a cattle station 

in the Northern Territory of Australia,

where the area of land that the cattle roam

can be around the 50 square miles 

(80 sq km) or more, 

many early cattle practices still exist.

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If anyone has ever been to a rodeo,

they will be familiar with cattle roping.

This is a practice of catching a beast 

in an open area, using a length of rope.

In ancient times there were no extensive fences

that exist today, and this was a method that a 

cattle man had to be good at.

Unfortunately, amongst some cattle men in the past

there has been a great deal of cruelty towards cattle,

and they also applied these practices to human beings.

I think those practices formed the basis of The Cult of the Bull, where the purpose was not to

worship the Bull, but to bring down and conquer it, and so dominate it. And this also was applied 

to human beings outside the cult.

Hence, their motto  -

                    "To rope you"

                    "To bring you down, conquer you, and dominate you (plural)".

text (c) Katherine Stuart 2021

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