In the two-part crossover 'Armageddon Now,' Callisto gains Godlike powers through the consumption of ambrosia (which looks like Jell-O). Though she intended to use the Hind’s Blood dagger against Hercules, once she realizes she has the ability to kill a god she just goes for the one standing closest to her at the moment. Xena fans know that Callisto was consistently one of the best characters on the show due in no small part to her complete unpredictability. As she was a young girl when Xena’s army destroyed her village and caused the deaths of everyone she loved, Callisto grew up with an incredibly reasonable hatred of Xena, which was to become her defining characteristic, much as our love of Xena is our defining characteristic. In the first season of Xena: Warrior Princess, we were introduced to Callisto, a woman who represented Xena’s murderous past. We do stan alt-rocker and recurring Weeds guest star Alanis as the divine power. This is understandable because getting angry at Alanis Morissette would be a little difficult.

Though many characters express anger with God throughout the script, when she finally shows up just grinning that affable Canadian grin, all is forgiven. In Dogma, the script's primary focus is on criticism of hypocrisy in religion, even when the hypocritical behavior comes from the deities themselves. This God has one hand in her pocket, and the other one’s creating all life. After two angels go awry, cause mass destruction, and nearly usher in the end the universe, a nonverbal Alanis shows up and makes a few shrugs and gestures and fixes the whole mess. who was over the age of 12 in 1999 is going to be the appearance of alternative icon Alanis Morissette in Kevin Smith's Dogma. Of course, when you bring up a lady God, the depiction most likely to be referenced by just about anyone in the U.S. In fact, in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s highly intense book on Jack the Ripper, From Hell, the villainous Doctor Gull goes on a tirade praising the destruction of female power via methods described in When God Was A Woman. Though perhaps not as well-remembered as other feminist texts of the ‘70s, references to Stone’s work pop up in the very strangest places. Shockingly, there hasn’t been a lot of follow-up on this research by modern-day historians, so Stone’s book serves as pretty much a stand-alone text for your average reader. This book obviously made a lot of people very angry in the late ‘70s, but, maybe not that surprisingly, it had an influential effect on many feminists of the time.

In it, Stone asserts that intentional repression of powerful feminine archetypes and deities is a primary founding element of the systemic oppression of women. When God Was a Woman is a book by Merlin Stone written in 1976, in which the historical practice of worshipping a Sacred Feminine comes under investigation. Yes! Women can be anything they want to be, including God.

When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone