Black Panther: 20 WTF Moments

18. Hanuman

MBaku Black Panther
Marvel Studios

When we meet M'Baku and his tribe, we're told that they rejected the Wakandan desire for technological advancement and moved to the mountains to worship the monkey God Hanuman (just as the Panther-loyal tribes worhsip the Cat-God Bast).

Bast is an African God, so it's not that far out of the realms of possibility that an Egyptian God could be worshipped in Wakanda, but Hanuman is from the mythology of an entirely different country, India. And not only is Wakanda cut off from the rest of the world consciously, but M'Baku's tribe are even further cut off.

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