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The actual temple building was an octagonal structure, with a bastion and tower built at each corner. A further eight towers surrounded a dome raised in the centre of the structure, each tower tipped with a fire. A single large archway led into the dome and the building itself. The approach to this dome involved climbing a set of massive stone steps that were lined with coal braziers and pillars carved to feature serpents. At the top of the steps was a path that narrowed as it approached the gate that was similarly lined with fires and pillars. However, between the gated archway and the top of the steps was a wide circular pool. This pool generated three narrow watercourses that rushed towards the steps, and in fact continued down it, with one channel on either side and one set in the middle, splitting the staircase. The gate itself consisted of two large doors of beaten and carved bronze. They featured a complex design only fully understandable when the gate was closed. It showed a large tree with spreading and fruit-laden branches. Many minor serpents twisted and spiraled around the edges of the design, but two great snakes coiled around the tree and each other, with their heads entwined together above it. [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Garviel Loken]] of the [[Sons of Horus]] [[Space Marine Legion]] noted that this central image was strikingly similar to that worn by Marine [[Apothecary|Apothecaries]]; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus caduceus]. The paving in front of the gate continued the image of the tree by featuring a carving of three great roots that led to the edge of the wide pool. Apparently, once the gates were closed they could only be opened from within. ^1-p.230-234

There was a secret chamber at the heart of the Lodge, protected by powerful magic and screening technology installed by disgruntled adepts of the [[Mechanicum]] in return for information given to them by the [[Word Bearers]] Legion. Circular in nature, the chamber had a sacrificial circle and sinkhole built into its centre. It was here that the Lodge members cast the spells that allowed [[Erebus]] to communicate with Horus during the Warmaster's stay in the Temple.^1-p.246

Davinite belief was that the injured taken inside were left to the care of the spirits of the deceased, and their destiny. They were expected to come forth healed, but if this did not occur after nine days, their remains were brought out and burned, the ashes cast into the pool. Horus came forth upon the ninth day.^1-p.334

*¹:[[False Gods (Novel)|False Gods]] by [[Graham McNeill]]