The Circle in the Square, the Meeting Place Between Heaven and Earth

Hucok synagogue has images of helios surrounded by 12 signs of the zodiac, all with hebrew names attached to them. This is a symbol that gordon behinkley loved and it's common in laterday saint temple ichonography. It depicts the meeting place between heaven and earth, which is exactly what ancient jewish communities thought of when they viewed the jerusalem temple. And i so in various ways, we can see synagogue worship at hukoke and and some other our contemporary synagogues as being very temple oriented.