In Japan one can find an ancient stone pyramid. It is a beautifully shaped monolith, about six and a half feet tall and twelve feet at the base, practically lost in the thick forest growth on the slope of a hill near the town of Ena, in central Honsu, largest of the Japanese islands. Cut from a single, massive block of gray granite, the object was a pyramidian, a smaller version of the Great Pyramid and its full-size cousins. This trignon, as they call it, might have passed for the missing capstone of its gigantic counterpart in Giza.
People leave flowers at the base of the pyramid.
Their veneration is more in keeping with Shinto practices, which predate Buddhism in Japan by unknown centuries. There are few folk lores about the pyramid. The only mythic element still current concerns a white serpent that dwells either within or underneath the trignon. It is a beneficent creature, which local people worship by laying out plates of small eggs for the snake to consume. Somehow, this practice is related to human and agricultural fertility.