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It is recognized for its singular, great frieze which is thought to be some main deity figure surrounded by either calendar signs or natural forces for agricultural worship.

Along with Viracocha, another statue is in the Gateway of the Sun.

This statue, many believe, is associated with the weather: " a celestial high god that personified various elements of natural forces intimately associated the productive potential of altiplano ecology: the sun, wind, rain, hail-in brief, a personification of atmospherics that most directly affect agricultural production in either a positive or negative manner ", This statue is more complicated than Viracocha in that it has twelve faces covered by a solar mask and at the base thirty running or kneeling figures.

Some scientists believe that this statue is a representation of the calendar with twelve months and thirty days in each month.