The Gardener of Atlantis (Onto Heli) is a meditating figure of the Atlantean ages who tends a walled garden at the center of the labyrinth of Ur-Draxa, a submerged city accessible only by meditation.
| Type | Character |
| World | Antiterra |
| Spanish entry | El Jardinero de Atlántida |
Description
He sits in lotus position, a watering can in one hand, the other open with the palm toward a rosebush; long pleated robe, an Egyptian patriarch’s beard, a solar crown behind him. Beneath him a papyrus on stone bears the motto ONTO HELI (Ὄντο Ἡλί). Two cartouches read EL JARDINERO DE ATLÁNTIDA and Ὁ ΚΗΠΟΥΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΤΛΑΝΤΙΔΟΣ, the same name in Latin and Greek.
The garden
- He levitates in meditation and interrupts only to water.
- His plants are Akashic memories in vegetable form; whoever looks at them closely remembers what they did not live.
- The papyrus diagram (interlinked sigils, sun and moons, triangles) is the plan of the garden, not of the labyrinth.
- Visitors usually come across the Sea of Guilt, burdened.
Visions
He gives visions to visitors, the Deep Ones among them in earlier incarnations. He does not speak with a human voice. One vision: the Cakravartin still king beneath the waters, a city ringed by swimming dragons, a smell of salt the visitor recalls on waking. Onto Heli has been read as an echo of Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani; it works as a mantra, and he does not utter it.