Graphic showing part of the frieze with Viracocha and winged figures converging on the central deity. These images are part of the Sun Gate calendar from Tiwanacu. Click to enlarge

According to some researchers (e.g. Zecharia Sitchin),  our ancestors knew their gods. They were not gods in any religious sense, and there was no religion as such. The gods were not a matter of belief: the people lived side by side with them in cities built by human laborers under the direction of Anunnaki architects and engineers.  

Relevant Links:

• Annunaki History
• SGbeardedGods
• Ken Bakeman
• Sun Gate calendar from Tiwanacu

Jerusalem, Mecca, Giza …What these 3 sacred sites have in common?

Location

It seems that all ancient temples were part of a global network (matrix) of monuments ( locations of these sites was not random).

A line from the Dome of the Rock to the Kaaba, center to center, has length 666.75 nautical miles (=1232.9690 km = 2,354,341.976 REC = 11.1 deg of arc).
Also, the perimeter of Giza-Jerusalem-Mecca triangle is: 1,600 nautical miles, 1840 miles, 2962 km = 5,655,909 Royal Egyptian Cubits

BTW, there is also another connection of Kaaba with the Great Pyramid — and the temple in Baalbek:

 Moreover, religious texts reveal that locations of all sacred sites  were chosen by God(s).  Here are few examples.

Jerusalem

31° 46′ 40.8″ N  [31.778 ]
35° 14′ 7.44″ E  [ 35.2354 ] or
4^o 06′  09.3″ E  – after factoring the ancient Prime Meridian (GP instead of Geenwich)

Although Jerusalem appears in the Hebrew Bible 669 times, it is not mentioned in the Pentateuch. Instead when referring to Jerusalem, the term “the place that God will choose” is used.

And God said: ‘Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah (Jerusalem); and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains (Temple Mount) which I will tell thee of.  — Genesis 22:2

The earliest tradition regarding Jerusalem states that Adam, the first man, was created from the same place where in future the Altar would stand in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem has been the holiest city in Judaism and the ancestral and spiritual homeland of the Jewish people since the 10th century BCE. The city of Jerusalem is given special status in Jewish religious law. In particular, Jews outside Jerusalem pray facing its direction.

The Foundation Stone or Rock is the name of the rock at the heart of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. It is also known as the Pierced Stone because it has a small hole on the southeastern corner that enters a cavern beneath the rock, known as the Well of Souls. It is believed by some to have been the location of the Holy of Holies in the Temple, and is the holiest site in Judaism.Jewish tradition views it as the spiritual junction of heaven and Earth. Jews traditionally face it while praying.

Kaaba in Mecca

21° 25′ 21.02″ N  21.422506
39° 49′ 34.58″ E  39.826272
8° 41″ 33.78″ E  – after factoring the ancient Prime Meridian (GP instead of Geenwich)

The Qur’an states that Abraham, together with Ishmael, raised the foundations of the holy house. God had shown Abraham the exact site, very near to the Well of Zamzam, where Abraham and Ishmael began work on the Kaaba’s construction.  After Abraham had built the Kaaba, an angel brought to him the Black Stone, a celestial stone that, according to tradition, had fallen from Heaven on the nearby hill Abu Qubays. 

The Black Stone is the eastern cornerstone of the Kaaba, the ancient stone building toward which Muslims pray, in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is revered by Muslims as anIslamic relic, which, according to Muslim tradition, dates back to the time of Adam and Eve. The stone was venerated at the Kaaba in pre-Islamic pagan times.

Islamic scholars have generally assumed that the Kaaba was constructed by Abraham around 2130 BCE. The Kaaba is, therefore, believed by Muslims to be more than a millennium older than Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, which is believed to have been finished in 1007 BCE. These dates remain consistent with the Muslim belief that the Kaaba is the first and thus oldest mosque in history.

The four corners of the Kaaba roughly point toward the four cardinal directions of the compass. Its major (long) axis is aligned with the rising of the star Canopus toward which its southern wall is directed, while its minor axis (its east-west facades) roughly align with the sunrise of summer solstice and the sunset of winter solstice.

Is Mecca at Phi location on its meridian?

Is Mecca at the Golden Ratio point of the Earth? Let’s first look at latitudes.  Phi to 15 places is 1.6180339887499.  There are 180 degrees between the North Pole and the South Pole, so 180 divided by Phi is 111.2461179749810.  As latitudes are expressed in degrees and distance from the Equator, we subtract 90 degrees and convert this to a latitude of 21 degrees, 14 minutes and 46.02 seconds, North or South.

The latitude of Mecca, according to Google Earth, is 21 degrees, 25 minutes and 21.02 seconds. 
This puts it only 10 minutes and 52.54 seconds north of the exact northern golden ratio latitude of the Earth. 
This is a variance of less about 1/10 of a percent, about 12 miles or 20 kilometers north of the exact golden ratio latitude point.

Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau

29° 58′ 45.03″ N [ 29.979175^o N]
31° 8′ 3.69″ E [ 31.134358^o E]
0° 0′ 0″ E  – after factoring the ancient Prime Meridian (GP instead of Geenwich)

Carl Munck discovered that when the world’s pyramids were built, their longitudes were reckoned from a very ancient Prime Meridian (0/360° longitude) that ran from pole to pole across the Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt, a full 31 degrees, 08 minutes, 00.8 seconds to the east of our modern Greenwich Prime Meridian. In order to “read” our western pyramids this 31° 08′ 00.8″ longitudinal variance must be factored in to our present-day longitudes for these western monuments.

The latitude of the Great Pyramid is 30 deg N

Distance, Angles etc.

• Mecca-GP: 11.56 deg, 695 nautical miles = 800 miles (799.85) = 4,224,000 feet = 1287.23km, heading angle 319.34
  
• GP- Jerusalem: 3.95 deg, 237.54 nmi = 273.31 miles = 1,443,076.8 feet = 1201.37 ² feet = 440km (439.92), heading 61.89 deg
• Jerusalem – Mecca: 11.09 deg, 666.7 nmi = 767.28 miles = 4,050,928.04 feet = 2012 ² feet = 1234.72 km, heading 157.31 deg
• Perimeter of the triangle: 1600 naut miles = 1840 miles = 2962 km
•                            Latitude distance   Longitude distance
  
• Jerusalem-Giza:       1.8 deg              4.1
• Jerusalem-Mecca:  10.36                   4.59
• Giza Mecca:            8.556                 8.692

Sacred Geometry Design

Pyramid, Dome and Cube “connect” 3 religions: Jewish, Christian and Muslim. Perhaps this is a hidden meaning of this Alchemy symbol:

 The Great Pyramid, Giza:

1.2 x 1.6180 x 1.6180 = 3.1415

 The Dome of the Rock, Temple Mount in Jerusalem:

Kaaba, Mecca:

God’s fingerprint

The Cosmological Diagram (aka the New Jerusalem Diagram) encodes some profound properties and proportions of our solar system (the Earth, the Moon, the Sun and more). It seems that all ancient temples were designed to reflect some of this knowledge.

Giza

The completed design dimensions, as suggested by Petrie’s survey and subsequent studies, are estimated to have originally been 280 Royal Egyptian Cubitshigh by 440 RE cubits long at each of the four sides of its base. The ratio of the perimeter to height of 1760/280 cubits equates to 2 x Pi to an accuracy of better than 0.05% (corresponding to the well-known approximation of Pi as 22/7).
The Great Pyramid is also a “shrine” to a special rock:  the capstone or Coffer in King’s Chamber

The template used to generate proportions of the Great Pyramid was also used to generate the layout for all 3 Giza Pyramids:

Giza layout plan is a rectangle:1000 x  sqrt(3)  by 1000 x sqrt(2) (in Royal Egyptian Cubits):

Above: According to Pythagoras’ theorem:  1² + (sqrt2)² = (sqrt3)²