The Yak Temple

 

The sun filtered through the trees, not by much. The forest was dense, wet and calm. Michael gazed at the temple. It was in the shape of a yak- majestic and powerful. The temple was made from black stones. He touched one stone and realised it wasn’t stone. In fact, it was a black, robust diamond. The quality of the diamond was unlike anything Michael had ever seen or heard of. It was ancient. Michael was scared of guessing its age but if he had to -  a million-year-old. He went closer to examine and heard some buzzing sound- as if the yak was breathing. He touched the temple again almost in reverence. There definitely was some humming. The diamond was vibrating and he could feel it in his hands. There were probably a hundred such diamonds stuck together to make the temple, like a jigsaw puzzle.  Each diamond was about one square foot.  Suddenly Michael realised that they were stuck together by magnets. The buzzing  was the low thrum of a magnetic field. These magnets seemed very powerful since the temple had withstood, if Michael was right, for millions of years. If the temple was that old then how could  human or any creature know magnetic theories then? Or was it that they were far more advanced and we had still million years to get there? Then there were diamonds. Michael wouldn’t be surprised if these diamonds were translucent. And then why did the temple represent a yak since yaks cannot survive in forests or jungles. They lived in areas with high altitudes. So could this yak  have lived in humid as well as cold places? 

Michael paused and thought. He thought for a long time. These theories were quite mind boggling. Or were they really theories? He was seeing them in action here, wasn’t he?……