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"I miss the old days when all they had to fight was ghosts and monsters, not the end of the world"

What show have you been watching?

Cause it sure ain't supernatural.

Since episode one, they've known something big was going down. That was the whole point.

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Fuck, now what do I do?

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When you’re towards the end of Carry On My Wayward Son and all the Road So Far’s are just flashing through your head and- oh wait now you’re trying not to cry this is great.

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SPN MAGIC PART III - SOUL MAGIC

or: Pagan gods are totally tulpas

PART I - RITUAL MAGIC (WITCHCRAFT) PART II - NATURAL MAGIC (ANGELIC/DEMONIC MAGIC)

So here is a list of things you can do with just ONE soul:

1. Power literally any amount of reality warping.

Soul magic = why crossroad deals even work. Another series might put a caveat on this: can’t use magic to bring people back from the dead, can’t use magic to make people fall in love. But SPN doesn’t care. It’s soul magic, it’s /fine/

2. Turbo-charge witchcraft

Don’t know why we don’t see more of this, actually. Henry Winchester travels 55 years into the future and only needs a week to recharge before he’s good to go again. Seems relatively low-risk and really useful.

3. Turbo-charge angelic / demonic magic.

This one’s not recommended so much for human use. Lily Sunder burns away bits of her soul every times she uses angel spells, and we all know what a problem that can be.

(and I know Death says you can’t split souls... but we’ve seen angelic and Ozian magic absolutely split souls. Let’s say he was just making the issue reaaalllly simple for Dean)

Now, here is a list of things you can do with a WHOLE BUNCH of souls:

1. Kill archangels.

2. Kill God.

3. Give yourself God-level powers.

... because monster souls were fine. The leviathans were the problem. If it were just the souls, it would have been Godstiel for a whole lot longer.

4. Create tulpas / thought-forms.

AND THIS is the one I want to focus on. Tulpas: once enough people believe something exists, reality warps and it begins to exist. Once it exists, it keeps on existing regardless of belief. (re. Mordecai Murdoch back in S1).

So, based on the way pagan gods are described, can we just agree that they’re really powerful tulpas?

... and that they work almost exactly the way they work in American Gods?

SAM: The thing is, with the Old Gods, once upon a time they were - they were just short of invincible. But they got a lot of their mojo from worshippers, from people feeding them. JODY: These days, not so much. SAM: Right, they’re not what they used to be. But they make up for lack of power with being twice as pissed and a lot more hands-on.

I mean, the boys always *think* it’s a tulpa, and it never is (like House and lupus.) But they are constantly fighting pagan gods. Gods that are really interested in either judging them, eating them, or both. Witches, psychics, powerful demons - they don’t act like that. They have their own power sources, so they don’t have to depend on humans.

SO I think that whenever we see an “old god,” nine times out of ten we’re looking at a tulpa. Because I do get that the distinction is a little messy. The angel Gabriel and the demon Samhain both set themselves up as gods, and I see no reason why a powerful psychic / witch / nephilim / antichrist couldn’t do exactly that, if they wanted. Cas and Metatron both present as gods in present day, and it would have been much easier back in the BCE.

(but sorry Kali. In SPN, the Abrahamic stuff is clearly canon.)

Demigods

God + Human = Demigod.

At the moment there’s Oliver son of Prometheus. And I think that’s going to be pretty much it.

Mostly, I don’t think the writers want to step on the toes of the Percy Jackson books. They shy away from treating vampires even slightly romantically because of Buffy/Twilight, and stay out of anything even vaguely sci-fi because of X-Files. Since 2013, the closest we’ve got is this:

GABRIEL: They’re not really demigods. Look, the whole Norse Pantheon is it’s own weird thing. Think of them more like, uh, god-begotten monsters.

Which I’m interpreting as monster + nephilim / antichrist / demon / angel / tulpa. (”other”). Since Fenris/Fenrir is actively worshipped by werewolves, I’d say the smart money goes on him being half-werewolf.

Although, it is kind of funny that these guys...

worship this guy

this guy