That was the question overheard numerous times, uttered by everyone from the ticket-sellers to customers at the bar, when Petaluma’s LUMA Ice skating rink hosted “Naga Night” on Friday, Dec. 27.

In both Hinduism and Buddhism, the snake or Naga, Sanskrit for “serpent”, is often depicted as a divine or semidivine being with spiritual and physical powers. In Southeast Asian countries such as ...