Atlas

The Rockefeller Center the statue of Atlas. The bronzed figure has his arms wide, holding up the vault of heaven.

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Atlas was given the task of holding the heavens on his shoulders as punishment from Zeus for leading the Titans in their battle with the Olympian Gods for control of the heavens.

The Olympian Gods which he battled against included his father Zeus.

Thus, allegorical representation of Lucifer as it was Lucifer leading the rebellion against God.

"Atlas is a form of Adam. Both names are derived from the root at or ad. As Adam was the first of the ten patriarchs, so Atlas is the first of the ten princes of Atlantis, and the monad is the first and chief of the numerations. Atlas, representing the monad or unity, is therefore given rulership over the whole world which he must support by the principle of unity."- Atlantis: An Interpretation Manly P. Hall pg. 26-27

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When the statute of Atlas unveiled  at the Rockefeller Center 1937, some people protested, claiming that it looked like Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Later, painter James Montgomery Flagg said that Atlas "looks too much as Mussolini thinks he looks". - Dianne L. Durante. Outdoor monuments of Manhattan: a historical guide. p. 141.