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'American Gods': Sakina Jaffrey to play Hindu goddess of war Kali Ma in season 2 of Neil Gaiman's fantasy series

The Starz show has a whole pantheon of Old Gods, and we now see Kali Ma, the goddess of war from the Hindu mythology, join the roster.

The battlefield is already red with the blood of the Old Gods, and it seems that they're bringing in the big guns this season with the introduction of Kali Ma aka Mama-Ji.

'American Gods' chronicles the adventures of Shadow Moon and Mr. Wednesday (who is actually Odin, Norse God), with the latter building a team of Old Gods in order to battle the New Gods of technology and globalization. Humans are slowly moving away from their traditions of worshipping Gods, and now worship their screens instead, and the Old Gods are just not going to have it.

Apart from already recruiting Old Gods like Czernobog, Anansi, and Bilquis, Mr. Wednesday,  pleads the attention of more forgotten Gods, and one of them is the warrior Goddess Kali Ma, who's played by Sakina Jaffrey.