“It's an altar for worshipping nature, the four elements being the key. They have more significance than we're aware of, but thanks to you I have a frame of reference to go by now.”

He decided to call it a day at that point, but as we left the room, turning the light off, we observed that the table was glowing in the darkness. Turning the light back on, we stood over the table to inspect it further.

"It seems to absorb the light, and reflect it back. But why?" said my father.

I touched the table with the tip of my finger, and for a split second it seemed to pass straight through, pulling my finger clear. My father tried the same thing, but was unable to elicit the same response. It was then that my father had one of those eureka moments. To test his supposition, he placed a hand on the middle of the table, and nothing happened. He then told me to place my hand in the same place. The symbols depicting earth, water, fire, and air started to rise out of the four corners of the stone slab. Once it was clear they had risen as far as they were going to, I removed my hand. Then a small electrical charge started to appear from each symbol, each one creeping to the centre of the table. Once joined in the middle, what I can only describe as an aura started to form across the entire surface.

"What's happening?" I said.

"I'm not sure, but one thing I do know is that only a female can activate it."

"How do you know that?" I asked.

"You see those symbols indicating the female gender? Well, I think those symbols next to it represent the male of the species. What I didn't understand is why the males seem to have two genitalia and that's what was throwing me, until you activated the table, which told me that it was meant for women only. Whether this indicates that