The "totems" make me think of plugging "crystals" into a device -- quartz if it's New-Age groovy, or di-lithium it it's 60's sci-fi. I'm baffled by those things being stored on the exterior.
Well, I'm baffled by the entire thing. It's an acid trip made corporeal.
When I someone say “MGuy says there were stones in it” I had no idea what that was.