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the crevice cleft in the rock up which the worshippers had to climb 

 to reach the sacred edifice. This crack is one of the most extra- 

 ordinary in the world, and to people skilled in nature worship it 

 would immediately suggest a place of great sanctity. With the 

 gnomon standing erect at the top of the crevice the full symbolism 

 of nature worship is fulfilled, and the consanguinity of that cult to 

 that for which the Kyaitligo Paya in Burmah was built stands 

 revealed. The builders of the Zimbabwe were barbaric, and could 

 not carve and gild as the Burmese could, but the enormous labour 

 and the care with which they cut the stones, carried them up the 

 sacred staircase in the cleft and pieced them together on top, show-s 

 a vitality in the belief as great as that under which the elaborate 

 carved temple in Burmah was built. The resemblances of the Great 

 Zimbabwe to the Kyaitligo Paya is not restricted to the crevice and 

 gnomon alone, but we have also in both cases the poised boulder, 

 which, in mystic language, would rei)resent the nrb of chaos, or the 

 seed of the lotus. 



