When she was a child, Priscilla Dobler Dzul wanted to be an Egyptologist. Obsessed by ancient culture, she devoured Egyptian mythology and even practiced mummification under the tutelage of her Scottish American grandmother, a woman passionate about science who instructed Dobler Dzul how to preserve small roadkill with borax and salt. On clear nights in Wollochet Bay far from the haze of urban light, she would also take Dobler Dzul outside to teach her about the stars. “She would talk to us about the cosmologies and mythologies of my history,” Dobler Dzul recalls. “She would tell us, I need you to understand how the planets work and how to study the stars, so you can see what it is that people have always been fascinated by.”

But Dobler Dzul had a hard time wrapping her head around the sc

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