These are a series of puzzles to progress deeper into an ancient temple. As a weight is placed on one pillar, it lowers and the adjacent pillar rises.

In order to get the sand bag weights, the player has to burn the ropes holding the bags to get them to fall. 
As the level progress though, some of the bags hanging are actually filled with oil, which triggers a fire trap when burned. 

The theme of this level was fire and earth.