The relationship between the Temple of Inscriptions and the Palace is through the proportional system used in their construction.
The Mayans really didn't plan on a grid-like system when building on a site. The site usually generated outwards and up form a core. For this reason, the Temple of Inscriptions and the Palace become unique because they were built with the same proportional system called the "Golden Section".
Golden Section- when a rectangle with with the proportions of the Golden Section has a square removed from one end of it, the result is a rectangle of the original proportions.
The Mayans excelled in their use of the Golden ratio. Partly, this was due to the fact that they not only applied it to architecture but also was instilled in their culture and used it to arrive at many other conclusions and views. Before it was explored mathematically, their interpretation originally derived from nature, such is the case of the shell(and we see it used even to represent the concept of the number zero).
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