The 'godless' Japan lake warning of climate change

The 'godless' Japan lake warning of climate change

The Japanese priest and his parishioners gather before dawn, hoping that climate change had not robbed them of the chance to experience an increasingly rare communion with the sacred. The few dozen men, most in their sixties, head to Nagano's Lake Suwa in search of a phenomenon called "God's Crossing" that has gone from reliable to elusive in recent decades.
Known as "miwatari" in Japanese, it occurs when a crack opens up in the frozen lake surface, allowing shards of thinner ice to break through and form a ridge where local deities are believed to cross. The God's Crossing has not appeared since 2018, an absence that both scientists and believers attribute to climate change.

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