Is This an Early Metaphor for Immortality?

Is this supposed to be an early metaphor for immortality? This idea of a place that is irrational. It has no purpose. It's chaotic. It pollutes the past and the future. The part that really resonated was the part where it says this architecture had no purpose. And then we find we later find out that it was the original city built by the mortals was destroyed. And this one was put in its place.