When Gods Melt: Global Warming Shakes Rituals and Beliefs in Sacred Mountains

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From the Andes to the Himalayas, the retreat of glaciers is forcing local cultures to modify millenary rituals, producing a spiritual disconnection and a sense of guilt in the face of the disappearance of the Hemeroteque ice deities – ‘Casar’ glaciers so that they have ‘children’: the Himalaya recovers an ancestral tradition to combat the climate crisis The Yaks shepherds of Bhutan are dismayed because the sacred Jomolhari mountain has lost its …