Did king Solomon use the Labyrinth from the Phaistos Disk in laying out his Temple Mount?
We saw in the pages on Labyrinth clues that the string of fields from the Phaistos Disk falls into place on the square board with the Labyrinth- like path, and that this board had clearly been designed as an image of the ancient heaven. The signs resembling northern star groups were correctly arranged to rotate around its “north pole”, and the continuous path of the “falcon & serpent” pair in an orderly chess- knight’s pattern around that pole and then around the center, in a sequence that parallels the Egyptian mythology, would be equally hard to explain as mere coincidence.Moreover, the race between the dark and bright parts of the moon during the lunar month along its opposing sides, on the loop from field 11 to 40, is in the proper location for the ecliptic opposite that pole where this race takes place in the sky. The Labyrinth board combined all this, and more, into a simple diagram of heaven and its inhabitants.*Building a replica of heaven has been the unchanging goal of temple
