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The Emperor's Villa

Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories

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The Po's Asymmetrical Beauty and Grace Is Perfectly What He Designed

The pool represents a branch of the river nile, and at the far end is a shell shaped grotto. These are decorative statues of women in flowing dresses, which stand in for columns to support the stone structure above. This cave is also a kind of shrine or temple dedicated to sarapis, the egyptian god of the underworld. The po's symmetrical beauty and grace is exactly what he intended, and it's the perfect combination of greek, roman and egyptian styles.

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