Balanced Rock Piles is a photograph by Alexandra Till which was uploaded on May 1st, 2014.
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Balanced Rock Piles
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Alexandra Till
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Rock balancing is a a pretty cool hobby, an exercise in balance, spatial orientation, and patience. Those rock piles are called cairns.
A cairn can have several purposes. They usually signify a trail or are navigational land/sea markers or even memorials. In a number of native cultures, including the Hopi Indians of Arizona and many of the Eskimo Native Americans of Alaska, a stack of rocks was seen as a symbol of a protective entity. Because a vertical stack of rocks looks like a human figure to some extent, these stacked rocks were seen as entities protecting the property, perhaps warding off harmful spirits and helping to protect the sacred space of a particular outdoor area.
For some, building cairns is a kind of prayer or meditation. It's hard to think of other things when you're balancing rocks. It takes body, mind and soul. Very Zen. A lot of people, for a lot of reasons, take the time to gather rocks and build a cairn and say "here... now".
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