[bert]

.....Worried villagers in recent days have performed rituals aimed at warding off an eruption....

elders are worried however, an absence of sacrifical virgins means the rituals have not been performad as in days of yore. It seems all the virdins are now in Paradise tending to suicide bombers.

[Redbob]

"Worried villagers in recent days have performed rituals aimed at warding off an eruption....
A worker cleans a sand trap at Merapi Golf Course..."

Some unusual rituals they got thereabouts!

[Fraxinus]

elders are worried however, an absence of sacrifical virgins means the rituals have not been performad as in days of yore.

All those virgins gave Merapi a bad case of indegestion last time?