Sam performs a ritual to summon Balthazar.
There are rituals for summoning angels, not unlike demon summoning rituals. However, angel summoning rituals appear less commonly than their demonic counterparts. There are also rituals for summoning an archangel.
As with demon summoning rituals, there are many variations, some simpler or more complex than others.
Procedure
Summoning an Archangel
Summoning an archangel requires an enochian chant to be recited. Other requirements appear to vary.
In Free To Be You and Me, Castiel performed a summoning ritual to summon Raphael. Castiel performed this on Donnie, Raphael's original vessel. Although used on an archangel, Castiel described the method somewhat similar to dialing to access an 'open phone line' between a 'vessel and his angel'. This could mean that it could work on regular angels as well.
When summoning Raphael, Castiel uses a simple ritual. An Enochian incantation to summon Raphael later recited:
- "Rah ah gah ee oh es"
- "Vee nu nohno kee ah seh peh teh poh ah ma lah deh zod"
In Point of No Return, however, Zachariah uses different Enochian incantation to summon Michael to Earth. Strangely, Zachariah just simply reciting the spell to summon Michael, and no any form of ritual was held. An Enochian incantation to summon Michael is:
- "Zod ee reh doh noh koh ah beh rah ma geh nah zod peh sah geh"
In Hell's Angel, Dean summoned Lucifer using various ingredients and an incantation which he read from a scroll. This summoning ritual allowed Lucifer to receive messages from Dean, such as the promise of a Hand of God.
Summoning an Angel
The ritual requires several enochian symbols and other objects.
A bowl or dish filled with various materials, most of them akin to leaves, herbs or petals set before a circular sigil. The sigil itself is separated by four lines into four areas or quadrants. Each quadrant contains a different enochian symbol or letter.
Outside the circle, four other enochian symbols are written. Four lit candles are placed atop the four quadrants, and four other objects are placed at the farthest points outside the circle. A trinket placed near the dish is also required. To complete the ritual, the summoner must set the materials in the dish on fire. Once the materials are lit, the angel appears instantaneously in the immediate vicinity. Unlike demon summoning, the ritual to summon angels did not require an incantation.
Appearances
Daphne Allen was the wife of Emmanuel.
Background
On a run in the forest, Daphne found a naked man walking around with no memory. Believing it to be God's word, she had taken him home and took care of him, and got married. Her husband also discovered that he had the power to heal and went around healing people in need; when people needed him, they contacted Daphne.
Months later, a demon broke into her house and tied her to a chair. Daphne was saved when Dean Winchester showed up and killed the demon. When her husband arrived and came in he untied her. Daphne told Dean that her husband had always been gifted. Dean told them that the intruder had been a demon and that he needed Emmanuel to save his brother.
Appearances
Trivia
- The way Daphne discovered Castiel wandering along a river, naked, is similar to the Greek mythology, in which Daphne was a Naiad, a nymph associated with bodies of freshwater.
- It is unknown if Daphne ever reported "Emmanuel" missing, or if Castiel even remembers her.
- It is unknown how "Emmanuel" was able to contract legal marriage to Daphne without any identification or civil records of his existence. It's possible that their marriage was common-law, or solely religious and not legally binding.