KEEPER OF THE PLANET

Adam Lund, a resident archaeologist at the Museum of Natural History featured a planetarium show entitled, “Cross-Cultural Mythologies Regarding Mother Earth and Her Most Challenging Children.” His introduction before inviting his audiences to lie back and experience the wonders included the following:

“Throughout history in almost every culture, humans have been aware of their destructive tendencies and as such have imagined manifestations to scare themselves, if nothing else, into being mo...