Figure 1 On the left: The Knossos Monolithic Basement, the oldest part of the Palace.
On the right: The 34-holed Kournos built into the floor of the Malia Palace Courtyard.
In Sacred Geometry and the Goddess I wrote about the Minoan New Palace period (on Crete), where I found that the distance between the primary temple at Knossos, and coastal temple Malia directly east of Knossos, were 18.618 miles apart. This implying the periodicity of the Lunar Maximum (currently just concluding) as taking 18.618 solar years, was known to he Minoans and that if the Minoans were interested in this Nodal cycle, and chose to signify that cycle between these monuments, then they also used the mile and probably the foot to do it and familiar with it as 5280 feet (this being just one of the many miles used within historical and earlier settings).
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