The stele statues represent the first example of "portrait" of our first parents. The statues, singular magical simulacra, could thus be a challenge to the inexorable flow of days, a pathetic and naive opposition to the inevitable dying. The "Ancients" of the stone lineage therefore seem to be staring at us with their disquieting, empty eyes, and from the distance of their thousand-year duration perhaps commiserating us in our ephemeral and fragile existence. They, the Immortals.