[9]. However, she wasn't the only one who was affected by this religion. At the end of the story, the alternate Superman is placed in a chamber that radiates red sun illumination, nullifying his powers. Clark uses the key and transports all of Zod's soldiers away from Earth, but Zod avoids this with the use of a Blue Kryptonite dagger. After Mon-El's sacrifice, Kara Zor-El devoted her life to her heroics as Supergirl, reconnecting with her Kryptonian heritage, as she started to meditate and pray according to the tenets of the faith of Rao. Rao is referenced in episode six of season 9 of the series Smallville, "Crossfire". Additionally the red sun prison where Superman is imprisoned appears as a stage. [4] The post-Crisis version created by John Byrne stated that Kryptonians absorbed solar energy, with the dim output of Rao being just enough to sustain them, and a yellow sun producing enough energy to "supercharge" a Kryptonian metabolism to levels of power not seen in their native environment, though it takes years for Clark Kent to build up enough energy to reach the level of power he displays as Superman. However, among the wreckage, a Kryptonian-like crystal console was found intact. The "Book of Rao" is first mentioned in the next episode "Kandor". R.A.O. The story hints that the Kryptonian race and Kal-El's survival was no coincidence, but a making of Rao. In Infinite Crisis #7, Superman and Kal-L carry Superboy-Prime through Rao to remove his powers, which enables his defeat. [1] After Supergirl's first defeat at the hands of Reign, Thomas Coville joined the efforts of Worldkillers and rebranded the religion, believing Supergirl lost. instead of his standard "Great Krypton!". In subsequent episodes, this artifact is revealed to be the Book of Rao. Thomas Coville, previously disenfranchised with his life, has found hope again after he looked into the eyes of Supergirl. Tess Mercer managed to find it in the ruins and took it to the crow's nest that Clark goes to look over the city in Metropolis. Rao is a Kryptonian deity, symbolizing sunlight. During the main story the red sun prison is attacked by Supergirl and the Regime. He gives us strength when we have none. He is also the ancestor of Superman in all continuities. In the 1978 Superman: The Movie, Rao appears as an old red dwarf star. Starting in 1960,[3] the fact that Earth's sun was yellow while Krypton's was red became the explanation for Superman's powers, with our sunlight fueling them like the charge of a battery. Rao, protect us, so that we might protect others. Feeling lonely, he sought to bring order to the chaos from which he was born, and thus created the universe. This was subsequently confirmed in "mainstream" DC continuity of the time in the 1982 miniseries Phantom Zone. Cult of Rao was a radical religious sect organized by Thomas Coville, a lawyer who was saved during the first appearance of Supergirl in National City, subsequently turning Acolyte of Rao and using knowledge from a Kryptonian BetaHedron. The Fortress of Sanctuary hologram presented him before Reign as an ally. Rao works through avatars. [volume & issue needed], In the New Krypton story line, the Phantom Zone prisoner Jax-Ur becomes possessed by a minor Kryptonian god obsessed with ending the world and making a new one. Later on, Kara visited the Community Center again, confronting Thomas with the fact that Kenneth attempted arson and suicide to test his faith in Supergirl, which Thomas did not object to, and even managed to discern Supergirl's true identity. She managed to escape, and started to look for Kal-El, the last Kryptonian and a direct descendant of Rao himself. In the 1978 Superman: The Movie, Rao appears as an old red dwarf star. It is the red supergiant (in some continuities, red dwarf[1][2]) that the planet Krypton orbited. Earlier, Jor-El is seen by Chloe Sullivan, through cameras secretly installed in the Kent farm, hiding a Kryptonian artifact. In episode 4 of the third season, "The Faithful", Supergirl encounters Thomas Coville, a man who was on the plane she saved in the series pilot and subsequently founded a cult that worships both Rao and Supergirl. The Kandorian soldiers masqueraded as construction workers and scientists to have this tower constructed with the help of LuthorCorp and Metropolis's construction crew. For instance, 'By Rao, that curry is hot' or 'Thank Rao you're ok'. The title also refers to a supervillain of the same name and same Kryptonian etymology. 2) #14 (November 2012), List of areas, landmarks, institutions and businesses of Metropolis, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rao_(comics)&oldid=979324241, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2008, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2013, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2011, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 September 2020, at 03:33. —Prayer of Rao. In the 2013 film Man of Steel, Rao is depicted as a 13-billion-year-old red dwarf. His position made him the supreme deity within the Kryptonians pantheon where he was attributed as a creator deity. Zod proclaims that he is after the knowledge in that book, having already gained the Kryptonian powers under the yellow sun from Clark's own blood. According to the comics, just before the destruction of Krypton, the Nightwing and Flamebird of that generation tried to avoid each other, believing themselves to be crazy to feel the influence of the myths. "Though we go forth alone, our soul unites us under Rao's gladsome rays. Cult of Rao was a radical religious sect organized by Thomas Coville, a lawyer who was saved during the first appearance of Supergirl in National City, subsequently turning Acolyte of Rao and using knowledge from a Kryptonian BetaHedron. Believing the Kryptonian's help to be an act of a goddess, he intended to create a cult in Supergirl's honor. In Super Friends #47 (August 1981), Superman reveals that "Rao" is also the Kryptonian name for God. As such the name was sometimes invoked in the comics as a Kryptonian exclamation. As the military around the world only help to make the fake god more powerful, Nightwing, Flamebird, and the JSA try to stop Rao but do little until Wonder Woman, armed with an axe blessed by her Greek gods, is able to hurt Rao. [3] As Coville secretly spread the new, pro-Worldkillers doctrine among his old followers, they have abandoned the worship of Rao and started a Cult of Yuda Kal under Olivia's leadership, intent on turning Olivia into Yuda Kal's vessel, and thus, a new Worldkiller.[2]. For Rao sees all, feels all, His love eternal. It is described in detail in E. Nelson Bridwell's Krypton Chronicles that later on in Kryptonian history, Rao went from being the sun to a much more cosmic, monotheistic concept, which is "he who ignited the sun". We're never lost, never afraid, for we shrink not under the sun of righteousness. After Clark Kent recovered from the effects of gemstone kryptonite, he used concentrated power of his heat vision to bring the tower crumbling down. Using knowledge from a Kryptonian capsule he has found, Thomas created the Cult of Rao, spreading the Kryptonian deity's worship on Earth, although Kara Zor-El considered the ways of this cult to be heretical, misunderstanding Rao's message, primarily because Thomas intended to portray her as one of the deities of the pantheon. In the Sandman graphic novel Endless Nights, there is a story with Rao as the personification of the Kryptonian sun.

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