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This isn't so much a theory but I'll weigh in. For me there is a lot of sudo-hindu mythology aparent in the show. Not just the crystals and their spiritua/magical uses, ot the four and six armed ladies, I also see references to chakra and hindu spiritual beliefs in the series.

My thought is that the statue was originally a single fusion gem and was the original home of the original gems who came to earth thousands of years ago, and for a time became recognised and worshiped as a god on this world (kicking off hindu mythology) The fusion gem consisted of fourteen gems, one for each of the primary chakra. For thousands of years the gems ruled humans until the political split happened over whether or not to classify organic life as equal to gem life (humans being the most advanced organic life they'd ever met, and the majority of sentient life in the galaxy being mineral based)

Until that war there had likely only ever been a limited number of Gems. Reproduction had never been necessary because they live forever, this resulted in the birth of the kindergarten as the gems who treated humans as 'a lesser specie' sought to increase their numbers, overcome the seperatists  and cull the human herds. The seperatists fought, and even used the statue to fight off the new gems, but lost many of their numbers.

Most of the gems now are not in fact the original gems from the start of the war. Many of them were bred just for the war, and only a few original gems remain. Rose Quartz gem (in steven) being one of them. But the statue, the first gem, the Original fusion who once represented wisdom, power, honor, respect and became the origin of what we now consider hindu mythology, still waits, Innert, for it's children to come home :)

My prediction is that at some point during the series they are going to have to revive the statue, and it can't be done by just the five gems present. It will take a gem in each room meaning they will have to win over other gems along the way.