Mnemonic

On the dirt there is a lid trying to cover the number of times the dawn has risen here. You walk over and pull the lid off and the whole thing transforms into a podium. A podium for the dawn to tell you how many times it's risen over this dirt over and over again. It just keeps going and you realize the lid was here because this dang podium can't seem to keep a lid on it! (Get it? Figure of speech!)