View source for Pillar 1

[[File:Pillar_01-Night01.jpg|thumb|right]]

Pillar 01 is the "Title Pillar". 

It contains an alphabetic cipher text at the top ('''Unsolved''' at the moment), a labrinthine cipher ('''Solved'''), the sculpture's title "NKRYPT" and a series of numbers around the bottom which probably form part of a cipher ('''Unsolved''').

Pillar 1 is 2569mm tall, and is the tallest of the eight pillars.

==Top Cipher==
[[File:Pillar_01-Text_01.jpg|thumb|right|Large view of the cipher at the top of Pillar 1]]

The top cipher is very high and difficult to read (unless you are ''very'' tall). It consists of a grid of 10 rows and 26 columns wrapping around the entire pillar.

The cipher text reads
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<tt>
OXPUWAOEKZVCRLUYFMLXTPNATW

VGZTCGVGDAAXFDKOCRFRUOKAPW

LCMPTFPBTYXRSZKKQUBJAMHYUL

MZVSXXZHDLYHOKWWEJUXLXKRZU

PPESLBOEKOGRTAYDFOHRHVMPBN

DTEZBTYDXNMPXHVNKCIYEMJFVE

MNKDIQBOSUFFFWBVDNKHRTLIMZ

WRRQUFNNBGKUWNQCHDEFSTZZRQ

UIUDPTKGATPSJIFXXGGSNTWJLA

BRYVUCSBNPYAVSTTONZFWIUUNW
</tt>
|}

The letters 'P', 'V', and 'L' are in a larger font size.

The current best decryption is:
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==Bottom cipher - Solved==
[[File:Pillar_01-Text_02.jpg|thumb|right|Large view of the text in the middle of Pillar 1]]

The bottom cipher is at eye height. It contains letters in a grid of 5 rows and 26 columns. It contains what appear to be plain text words. A glyph containing an oscilating line and a dissected triangle points into one column of letters.

The cipher text reads:
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ALABYRINTHSTANDSBEHATAWAIT

EHTHCUORHTPEOYEROFTSAMGINE

ATONEBYONESTUATHEYCREATETH

IEFOENOTUBSIDNSNRETTRAMTHG

ETWISTSANDTURNSFORPAKALLTH
</tt>
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A solution posted by [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=432926846793651&set=a.432204380199231.108947.431342376952098&type=1 Glenn McIntosh on the nkrypt Facebook page on 20 February 2013]
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|<tt>
A labyrinth stands before you

and is but one of eight

mark all the twists and turns

for patterns they create

that one by one step through

the enigmas that await
</tt>
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==Base==

A string of numbers run in a circular pattern around the base of each pillar ([[Base_Code|see notes on the base code]]). On this pillar, it reads:

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10 12 11 12 11 11 14 17 30 30 16 18 11 12 10 10 10 14 19 24 12 12 12 13 7 9 8 11 14 14
</tt>
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