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).
In both palaces, something built early in the site’s history provided me with a starting and ending point for this length 18.618 miles (see figure 1), which is 98303 feet using Google Maps, where both these older sub-structures are visible. In my book, the plan for Malia palace was used to establish its northerly dimension as around 346.6 feet, the number of days in the eclipse yearthe time taken (346.62 days) for the sun to again sit on the same lunar node, which is when an eclipse can happen. (this associated with the retrograde movement of the diametric lunar nodes on the eclipticThe path of the Sun through the sky along which eclipses of sun and moon can occur, traditionally divided into the 365¼ parts of the solar year, each part then a DAY in angle rather than time., hence being less than the solar yearFrom Earth: the time in which the sun moves once around the Zodiac, now known to be caused by the orbital period of the Earth around the Sun. of 365.24 days).
The east-west width of the rectangular palace was 283.6 feet, the same dimension as the mean diameter of the Aubrey Circle at Stonehenge. The area of the palace would then be these two dimensions multiplied together to the 98301.5. From this one can see firstly, that 283.6 must be a factor of the English Mile of 5280 feet which divides into the mile 18.6177 times, a figure even closer to the actual nodal periodUsually referring to the backwards motion of the lunar orbit's nodes over 6800 days (18.618 years), leading to eclipse cycles like the Saros. of 18.6178 solar years. This means that the nodal cycle is implicit within the mile as the diameter of the Aubrey circle and the width of the Malia palace rectangle.
In my book, it is also pointed out that the nodal period relates to an anciently recognized periodicity of 33This is the number of years for an exact number of 12053 days. This period can be measured using the equinoctal sun and it has come to be known as the lifetime of semi-divine Solar Heroes such as Jesus and Mithras. This period relates geometrically to the 18.618 years of the moon's nodal period. years called the Solar Hero period given in religious texts and myths, and somehow important for heroic figures that they should die at the age of 33, examples being Jesus the Christ and Alexander the Great. 33 divided by the 18.618 accurately gives the square root of pior π: The constant ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159, in ancient times approximated by rational approximations such as 22/7., the circular constant; so that a radius of 18.618 produces a circle of equal area to a square of side 33.
Not only does the area of Malia palace equal 18.618 miles but also, the palace enabled an elegant means for the construction of one quadrant of the circle and square of equal area.
This now poses the question of the Aubrey Circle’s diameter at Stonehenge which, at 283.6 feet, is 1/18.618 of a mile of 5280 feet. The required size for the same construction as at Malia must be 346.62 feet by 283.6 feet from which the Stonehenge 1 Aubrey can create a full four-quadrant equal area model.
The Minoans resemble the Megalithic, which as I say in my book was not a work of Neolithic (or farming) activity. Rather, it belongs to a much older Mesolithic interest in an astronomy of Time, made possible by counting between sky events using days and or lunar months and using an already integrated male workforce. This astronomy was therefore present in the matriarchal Mediterranean and old Europe would be largely Mesolithic until the Neolithic way-of-living displaced it, quite late in Greece since its coastal plains has been denuded by a rise in sea level. In the Minoan period of Crete matriarchy still had a grip on Mesolithic astronomy while forming a great trading empire by sea as what has often been cited as Europe’s first Civilization, including parabolic drains. The Cretans were a big influence on Classical Greece and Greek Myth.
More on this and related facts of the equal area model between the square of 33 years and circle 18.618 years can be seen in different chapters of Sacred Geometry in Ancient Goddess Cultures.
