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Underscoring the scene’s spiritual liveliness, the museum created remarkable lighting for the piece.

Looking at it, one wonders: Is this sculpture distinctive because volcanoes in central Java are spiritual sites, so molten material thrown up from deep within the earth inflects the art’s intended meaning?

From these observations, Buettner created a list of nine recommendations for living a long life: Incorporate low-intensity activity such as walking into your routine, reduce calorie intake by 20%, avoid meat and processed foods, drink red wine in moderation, find a life purpose, reduce stress, participate in a spiritual community, make family a priority, and, finally, be surrounded by people who live in a similar way.

Gabbard is not of South Asian descent herself—her parents are from American Samoa—but she’d been steeped in certain tenets of Hinduism while growing up in Hawai’i, because her family members were enthusiastic devotees of a local spiritual sect, the Science of Identity Foundation, that splintered off from the Hare Krishna movement in the 1970s and got involved in Honolulu politics.

With “Beyond,” a big belter in the “Let It Go” tradition and something of a spiritual successor to the first film’s “How Far I’ll Go,” Moana faces something new: “A call straight from her ancestors looking toward the future instead of trying to discover the past,” Barlow says.