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As many as 25 people lived in the Ghost Ship at any one time, often in spaces that doubled as art studios, and practiced a twist on Satya Yuga, an ethos that is part Eastern religion and part artistic celebration.

On the stand, some people testified that Almena laughed about safety concerns at the warehouse, which also was known as the Satya Yuga Collective.

Almena, he said, joked that they should call it the “Satya Yuga Deathtrap.”

Those who lived there, adjacent to a car alarm store and across the street from a Wendy’s, subscribed to a twist on Satya Yuga, an ethos that is part Eastern religion, part artistic celebration.

Almena took out the lease for the warehouse in 2013 for an artist collective called Satya Yuga.