To move large blocks of stone, either with simple levers and blocks or with pulleys and machines, is like a performance in its own right, which can become a ritualistic preamble as important as the cutting or carving itself.
(To move large blocks of stone, either with simple levers and blocks or with pulleys and machines; is; like a performance in its own right) (its own right; can become; a ritualistic preamble as important as the cutting or carving itself)
To move large blocks of stone, either with simple levers and blocks or with pulleys and machines its own right
is can become
like a performance in its own right
a ritualistic preamble as important as the cutting or carving itself