The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

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of the Stellar has been brought on and mixed with
it
; even the names of the Bacabs (Maya) are written
in the old Toltec Stellar Glyphs above them. The
two central figures sitting one on each side of the
Tatt Cross represent Horus in two forms, Earthly
and Spiritual ; although they have retained here
one of the Signs and Symbols for his Stellar name,
as shown on the left and portrayed by the head
of the Crocodile, where we also see the Glyphs
which denote that it is Horus, or the " Brow of the
God Iu," the bringer or giver of life by water and
food.
In another form the Tatt Cross consisted of a
pedestal with four circular horizontal bars or
shelves, constituting a kind of Altar-Cross. The
name signifies " to establish," and is the Symbol
of Stability as the fourfold foundation of the world,
or an order of things, that was established upon
the four quarters. The Tatt -Altar or Pedestal
is the equivalent of the mount of the four Corners,
or the Tree with four branches, or the Cross with
four arms. It is the special type of Ptah, the
establisher of the four Corners in the Solar
Mythos ; but it existed as a Lunar Emblem for
the Moon -God before the Solar and, as we see here,
before that, in the Stellar as— " I am Tatt, the
Son of Tatt, conceived in Tatt, and born in Tatt "
(Ritual, ch. i). Tatt was set up in Tattu, the
established, or eternal region, the Station of the