Cythonna lost, and was imprisoned by Rao in another dimension. This was later referred to as "The Wars of Fire and Ice". Rao saw through Cythonna's trickery and battled her. The Goddess of Ice Cythonna however could bear no children and took to attacking the men She tried to persuade Rao to marry her, intending to use him to birth elementals to attack men. In Superman: The Last God of Krypton, a trade paperback by Walter Simonson, Greg Hildebrandt and Tim Hildebrandt, when Krypton was a primitive planet, the gods including Rao fathered men to worship them and live in peace. Wouldn't bringing life onto a planet that is inherently unstable add to the beauty of the life? If at any moment, it could explode.Truly it would only be perfectly beautiful, a perfect piece of art, if one single life-form escaped. In that story, Despair of the Endless speaks with Rao some billion years ago: The story hints that the Kryptonian race and Kal-El's survival was no coincidence, but a making of Rao. In the Sandman graphic novel Endless Nights, there is a story with Rao as the personification of the Kryptonian sun. This was subsequently confirmed in "mainstream" DC continuity of the time in the 1982 miniseries Phantom Zone. In Super Friends #47 (August 1981), Superman reveals that "Rao" is also the Kryptonian name for God. References to Rao began to creep into Superman's speech in the 1970s under the editorship and policy of Julius Schwartz, with Superman occasionally exclaiming " Great Rao!" instead of his standard " Great Krypton!". The 2004 graphic novel Superman: Birthright corroborates this, although in recent years, other writers have depicted red-sun radiation matching that of Rao as once again actively shutting down Kryptonian powers, for as long as an individual is exposed to it. 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. In the standard Silver Age continuity existing up until Crisis on Infinite Earths, Rao's red sun radiation actively suppressed the superhuman abilities of Kryptonians, as their powers only worked in the radiation of a yellow sun. Starting in 1960, 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. In the early years of Superman comics, the sun of Krypton was unnamed and was given no effect on Superman's powers, which were attributed first to greater evolution, and then to a combination of innate powers and Earth's lower gravity. For instance, 'By Rao, that curry is hot' or 'Thank Rao you're ok'. As such the name was sometimes invoked in the comics as a Kryptonian exclamation. "Rao" is also later written into the Superman mythology as the name of a Kryptonian deity, the personification of their sun, worshipped as a god of light and life. The title also refers to a supervillain of the same name and same Kryptonian etymology. It is the red giant (in some continuities, red dwarf ) that the planet Krypton orbited. Rao is a fictional star in the DC Comics Universe. Walt Simonson Greg Hildebrand (New 52) Bryan Hitch
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