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And if Fox News and far-right conservatives are mad now, just wait until they find out Superman is taking swings at their Oval Office deity.

But it also incorporates multiple arms holding specific sacred objects which became characteristic of how Hindu female deities were represented in later centuries.

Meanwhile, the imagery encompasses everything from Anubis, the Egyptian deity of the dead, to Liesl’s blasphemously bejeweled rosary that comes to symbolize the temptation to turn into her dad.

They profess to be emissaries of a deity called “Sleep,” and title songs like “The Night Does Not Belong to God.”

Black folks, and Black women especially, recognized certain homages on sight: the recurring suggestions of Yoruba deities, the purposeful insertion of certain Black stars in specific scenes, the tributes to mothers living and ancestral.