floorplan

the five central pillars each holds on top of it one of the five Platonic solids, representing the five Atlantean tribes that migrated up from Antarctica onto South America, Africa, Australia and Oceania. It is thought that the first step down after the interior-most platform was once used as a magic circle to keep demonic influences out of the circle that is inscribed around the banishing pentagram. Surrounding this are four benches (one for each of the four elements), two pillars (Jachin and Boaz), and the remains of a well. After this a step up, and then the diaganol walls, surrounded finally on the outermost by the shallow mote, crossed only on one side.