Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27464043-20151230192612/@comment-28278649-20171024182352

Why is it "definitely not in Ragnarok"? The movie isn't even out (to the general public).

But just because their culture is connected to the dead, which a lot of cultures and religions are (i.e. Voodoo, Hindi, Shamanism, etc.) doesn't mean that's because they can literally bring the deceased back and/or control souls.

If the trailer was anything to go off of, the connection to the dead is entirely spiritual - with T'Challa being able to enter a spiritual/quasi-astral Realm in which he's able to communicate with his predecessors - hence the appearance of the Panther.

Alternatively, the panther could've been a form of Bastet, their goddess, and the scene has nothing to do with communing with the dead.