Did King Solomon adapt the Labyrinth from the Phaistos Disk for his Temple design?
Let us now examine these striking overlaps between the Labyrinth board and the Temple layout. Click on the above detail from the Temple Mount layout drawing in the preceding page, and you will see how well the major features of the architects’ plan match up with their counterparts on the Labyrinth grid. The north pole from the red 480 x 480 cubit grid falls into the south-west corner of the innermost sanctum, two and a half cubit from its south edge, or an even eighth of its width, and two from its back wall in the west, amounting to one tenth of its 20- cubit length.The fit is even better when you consider that the Holy of Holies was also theologically the most appropriate place for the projection of the north pole since both were the dwelling place of God. The north pole in the sky was a preferred abode of the high gods in many cultures, a natural choice as the one fixed and thus privileged spot in the entire cosmos that revolved around it. The universe was driven by and ruled from t
