An Atlas is a stone carving of a male figure used as a column to support a Greek-style building, a reference to the Greek Titan Atlas, who was cursed to hold up the celestial globe (or, in later art pieces, the world itself).
My ASL Dictionary’s updated cartoon of a stone Atlas in a shirt and tie, illustrates the ASL hand sign for WORLD (the maps of Earth later appearing on his face and shirt).
The W hands circle each other in front of the chest, like tracing the orb of a planet.
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