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In Matt’s reading, the great statues on Mount Nemrut are personifications of the five sacred elements of creation rather than people. One side of the site faces the winter solstice and the other the summer solstice, with a lion and an eagle standing guard on each. He sees the artificial mountain itself as the structure of creation and the manifestation of physical reality, which is why Zeus appears as a god of air and wind. The largest figure, at the very center, represents quintessence, the spirit or consciousness that Matt believes animates everything else.