Humans have always been awed by the power and beauty of lightning. How does the experience and understanding of it change in a warming world? In a rock shelter in Kakadu national park in the north of Australia is an image of a being the Bininj people call Namarrkon . His flesh bleached away to reveal the bones beneath, he wears stone axes on his head, elbows and knees, and wields a great band of lightning that runs from his ankles up, over his head.
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