A cloud atlas is a pictorial key (or an atlas) to the nomenclature of clouds.

What does Cloud Atlas means?

A cloud atlas is a pictorial key (or an atlas) to the nomenclature of clouds.

What does the birthmark in Cloud Atlas mean?

Birthmarks. Which brings us to the comet-shaped birthmarks, which one character in almost every plot possesses. In Mitchell’s novel, the birthmark is thought to suggest that everyone who has one is actually a different incarnation of the same person.