Though the descriptions vary, the Queen of Sheba is said to have had sex with King Solomon, became pregnant, and raised his firstborn son. Bilquis is the Queen of Sheba, a character described a number of ways in sacred Jewish, Christian, and Muslim texts. As if to say to any potential reader or watcher this is the kind of world where these things happen.Īs we've outlined, most of the characters in this show are gods who came to America and are losing their power as people put their faith into technology and media rather than the ancient stories and deities from cultures around the world. When we talked with Neil about it later, he said it sounded like the same reasoning for him why he put it in the first 45 pages of the book.
It's the scene that totally land grabs what you're going to be doing. It was just an instinctive thing that felt iconic to the book and when we put it up on the board, it always felt right. It was very important for us to get that in there, so to speak. While the show changes the man into a more sympathetic online dater and the interaction into a random hook-up, the meaning remains the same.
