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Senyar, you're right that stacking rocks in high piles is an ancient ritual.
If it makes you feel better: in the Alps it's a benevolent ancient ritual. They're called Steinmänner, stone men. Wanderers add a stone each. They help other wanderers in finding the path.
we have cairns all over the high mountain trails here; it's a way to follow the trail in bare rock / tundra.
that said this goes far beyond "cairns" (rock-stacking) and is more magical balancing sculpture. I particularly like his use of water in many of these shots.