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Human kind has always raised stones as an expression of awe in the face of the invisible.

The Karnak stones in France, Silbury Hill and Cirque throughout Britain,

the zigaracts of Mesopotamia,

the pyramids in Egypt and in Central and South America.

At the turn of the first century,

new mountains of stone were raised to exalt a new God.

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