Aradia is the Goddess of the Lost. She appears as a small light to guide those who are lost. In Fear Itself, Willow called upon Aradia using a guiding spell to get her friends out of the bewitched frat house: “Aradia, Goddess of the lost, the path is murky, the …

In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Amy calls upon Diana, goddess of love and the hunt, for her spell on Cordelia. Diana is the Roman goddess of forests, animals and hunting, but not love. Venus is the Roman goddess of love. This may be a mistake on Amy’s part and it’s …

Dinza is one of the Eleusian mysteries, the dark demi-goddess of the lost. Only the dead can enter her presence, and those that do, she often traps for eternity. Angel spoke with Dinza in an attempt to find Cordelia in Ground State.

In Hush, the Wicca group in the college begin their meeting with the prayer: “We come together, daughters of Gaia, sisters to the moon…” Gaia was the Earth Goddess of the ancient Greeks. She was fertilised by Uranus and gave birth to all living matter.

Glory was one of three hellgods who ruled over a demon dimension. Her power started to outstrip that of the other two and they expelled her from their dimension, by trapping her inside a human body. The idea was that she would die when the man in which she was …

In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Amy calls upon Hecate, the patron goddess of witchcraft, to turn Buffy into a rat. Hecate is known in many different guises, including a young woman in a black robe holding torches, as three bodies standing back to back, and as a dark and evil …

In her spell on Glory in Tough Love, Willow says, “Kali, Hera, Kronos, Tonic. Air like nectar, thick as onyx. Cassiel by your second star, hold my victim as in tar!” Kali is the Hindu goddess of destruction and death, Hera is the Queen of the Greek gods and wife …

Janus was the god worshipped by Ethan Rayne in Halloween. In Roman mythology, Janus was the two-faced Roman god of gates, of doors, and of beginnings and endings, and was worshipped at harvests, marriages, births, and other kinds of beginnings.

Kokopeli is a fertility god. Joyce Summers owned a statue of him, which Dawn loved. Buffy disposed of the statue in the episode Gone in an attempt to try and stop Willow from practising magic.

Willow implores to Neisa, the goddess of chance and fortune, to help her win a poker game in The I in Team: “I implore you, Neisa, blessed Goddess of Chance and Fortune, heed my call. Send to me the heart I desire”.

Ooftah is the goddess of childbirth. Giles used a statue of Ooftah to hit Toth in The Replacement. Willow agreed the statue was a wise choice as, “She’s got some nice heft to her.”

In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was a god who became Lord of the Dead and Resurrection after his brother killed him and he was resurrected. In the Buffyverse, Osiris is summoned to perform resurrection spells on Joyce (by Dawn in Forever), Buffy (by Willow in Bargaining (Part 1)) and Tara (by …

The Svea Priestesses, also known as The Svear, were a powerful mystical order of women. Descendants of a powerful Nordic priestess called Svea, they attempted to banish the Beast, who turned to Angelus for help. When Angelus told the Angel Investigations team of his association with the Beast, they went …

In Goodbye, Iowa, Willow tells Tara about the demon-finding spell: “When the potion mixes and Thespia is called, it creates this mist over the parts where the demons are. It even makes different colors for different breeds.” She then embarks on the spell: “Thespia, we walk in shadow, walk in …