Bayon temple - God in Symbolism

I visited Cambodia recently, where i visited a lot of temples with a combination of Hindu and Buddhist influences. Due to the various wars that ravaged the country, each time the victor desecrated the idols and replaced them with his own. Hence the temples are beautiful, the carvings are exquisite, but the shrines and empty or desecrated. In some cases there is a recent idol of Buddha just to mask the emptiness.It gave me a glimpse of 'a world without God' by visiting temples without idols or shrines. People walked into the shrines with shoes. Some tourists even sat inside and drank beer. A local was distributing agarbatis to light in front of a Buddha idol, saying 'pray buddha' and then asking for money and he was also selling beer. Some tourists stepped on the holy symbols (representing shiva, shakti etc) thinking them to be just unusually shaped stones. A world without God.

But amidst all this, i found God amidst symbolism in the Bayon temple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayon

At the Bayon temple, God was not in the idol, but in the temple itself. As i walked through the passageways and glanced at the 37 'face towers' and 200 smiling faces built into the temple itself, i realized that this was an ingenious way of preserving 'God' and what God represents in an indirect manner, so that miscreants could not easily destroy it. There are many paths and many ways to reach the same point from different directions indicating that there is no single path to the destination. There are faces in each direction and they can be seen from different angles.

From outside, it looks just like some stones, but if you look carefully, each of the towers is made up of human faces in each direction. The doors are like a reflection of a mirror from a mirror. Each tower ends with a lotus on top. In Buddhism,a lotus is synonymous with peace and equanimity. In my view, it represents various Bodhisattvas who attained peace. However the central tower does not have a lotus on top. It is the highest and there is a hole that allows light to shine right into the tower. In my view, this represents enlightenment, which is even above peace. An enlightened being is ready to even disturb his/her own peace to spread light to others.