Aba, a daughter of Mahatma indefinitely delayed her wedding after the eruption. The missionaries renamed Mahatma Mel because it was easier to say and to them more cordial. Unlike the villagers, the missionaries considered Mahatma a klutz and they had little or no respect for him or his ideas. (or those of the other villagers, for that matter.). Erin, another Anglo missionary from Ireland had a secret affair with one young male villager. There were no grapes in Mahatma's village, but fruit dried by the lava tasted much like raisins to the missionaries. Ethan, an American missionary tried to smooth over hard feelings about Erin's supposedly secret liaisons. She was censured by her mentor priests.
Some of the younger missionaries brought an old-fashioned hand-cranked victrola and some vinyl oldies records. The young villagers seemed to enjoy this odd music, but the elder villagers considered it a cacophanous menace.
The villagers principal god was Crah. He was very unlike the Judeo-Christian God, but just as real to most villagers. He actually answered prayers most of the time, or so it seemed. "What did we do to offend Crah?", many villagers wondered after the malevolent volcano erupted. Crah very rarely punished His faithful followers. (to be cont'd)
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