Saturday, November 6, 2010

The volcano Gatekeeper

One of the sad - but not unexpected - stories to come from the eruption at Mount Merapi concerns the death of the "Gatekeeper" of the volcano, Mbah Marijan. Marijan was mentioned in a 2008 National Geographic article, "The Gods Must Be Restless", that I blogged about a long time ago - and that has turned out to be depressingly prophetic...

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