BtVS Dream: Touch of the Gods

This was another dream I had a couple weeks back.  So for this one, they’d all been chosen as avatars of various Egyptian gods.  Think of it like Stargate, except without aliens.  Still the same amount of ‘all I see is mine’ and ‘worship me now’.  Someone unaffected (Cordy?) had to snap them out of it, and once they remembered who they were again, they still had the powers and some of the memories but didn’t want to take over anymore.  They were all pretty accurate.  Except for Xander.  I’m still trying to work out that one.

To start with, Willow was Isis.  Obviously.  Avatar of magic, child of several religions (Judaism and Wicca, in her case), one whose magic revives the one(s) she loves….  (Which, actually, thinking about it, that revival spell should have been calling on Isis.  Not Osiris.  Yeah, sure, everyone knows Osiris is the dead Egyptian god, but that’s surface level.  You know whose magic brought him back to at least some level of life, ruling the land of the dead?  Isis, that’s who.  Then again, the use of Janus is both fitting and not, so…honestly, for Ethan they should’ve used Loki or another one of the trickster gods.)

In the dream, she was dating one of the African slayers, who was Bast.  Not sure about this one, particularly since there’s a better option here.  (Though if not for the fact that this is Egyptian magic and the stories are perfect, this would have been a more interesting option than Kennedy.)

Because, come on.  Tara as Osiris.  Even if she’s actually dead at this point.  Especially if she’s actually dead at this point.  Willow going on some sort of journey with magic but also hard work to bring her back to life.  Only she stays mostly dead, but not all dead.

Giles as Thoth.  Watcher, recorder, keeper of knowledge.  Thoth basically screams ‘Watcher’.  (I think he’d prefer Ibis, not Babboon, though.  I think he’d see that version as more refined.)

And not to forget, Buffy as Sekhmet.  Lioness warrior goddess, protector of the people (and the pharaoh) though life and death. but also healer.  Bit of bloodlust and the vengeful hand of Ra.  Also needed to be advised to return by Thoth in one version of a myth.

The one I don’t get is Xander as Horus.  Especially as it kind of makes him Willow and Tara’s son mythologically, and thematically…I mean, the only parallel is the level of traumatic backstory.  IDK, still confused.  Maybe Anubis instead, He Who Helps The Judges of Living and Death, plus while it’s a jackal he’s kind of the guard dog of the underworld.