There are a number of exciting actor names on the cast list for Starz’s upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy classic American Gods: Ian McShane! Gillian Anderson! Crispin Glover! Emily Browning! But one character name in particular has especially intrigued fans of the original story about old-world gods interacting with modern-day America. Bilquis—played by Yetide Badaki—is an ancient goddess of love who craves worship and features in the original novel’s most eye-popping sequence. Here’s your first official look at the goddess in her element.

When Badaki was originally cast, showrunner Bryan Fuller explained to Den of Geek that the love goddess—also known as the Queen of Sheba in some circles—would be getting an expanded role: “One of the exciting things for us in adapting this is that we get to expand characters, so Bilquis, who is only in a chapter of the book, then you don’t see her again, is a major player in this world.” Bilquis may only have one chapter (well, actually, two), but it’s a doozy.

There are plenty of viable theories on how Bilquis’s role could be expanding; the cast list, for example, doesn’t include book characters like Bastet and Easter. While Bilquis doesn’t exactly share their particular set of skills, it’s pretty normal for TV adaptations to simplify and combine characters. Then again, American Gods is still casting. Dane Cook joined just last week in the small role of the best friend to Ricky Whittle’s Shadow Moon—inspired, smarmy casting if you ask me. We’ll likely know a lot more about Bilquis, Easter, Bastet and the rest after the San Diego Comic-Con American Gods panel.

Here’s where we get into spoiler territory. Suffice it to say that Fuller and Starz have no intention of pulling their punches when it comes to Bilquis’s unique way of being worshipped and adored.

For the full spoiler effect, here’s Fuller speaking to IndieWire about the famous scene in which Bilquis devours a man whole without so much as opening her mouth:

One of the most amazing sequences for me when I was reading it was the Goddess Bilquis eating a man with her vagina! I think it’s beautifully written in the novel. What I love about how Neil’s laid out that sequence is that you’re in the gentleman caller’s point of view for his climax and the reeling of that. I mean, what is it like to cinematically deliver an orgasm to an audience that . . . more than likely, is not experiencing an orgasm at that moment, although you never know! Being in his point of view in the novel, he comes out of his orgasmic revelry and then he realizes that he’s kind of hanging upside down, chest-deep from her. We plan to deliver that moment as it is written, because I believe that we can, and that’s very exciting for us because we were breaking that story and thinking, we are just going to lift that right out of the book and drop it right into the show. That came up in the Starz meeting, they were like, ‘how are you going to do that moment?’ and we said, ‘we’re going to do it exactly as written’.

We’ll all see for ourselves when American Gods premieres in 2017.