Even before the final episode of Season 3, I have long thought that Dean would have to have divine help to escape his fate much less hell; guess I was right, grin and wow wasn't Castiel a fantastic affirmation of my theory. What I had initially discounted was that the amulet that Dean wears. Since I had heard in a You-tube interview that it was apparently a random choice by Jensen when being costumed for the pilot, I doubted that it would have any importance to the mythological portion of the story. After I saw the image of the face in the last scene of No Rest for the Wicked my opinion began to change. But at the Chicago con I got to ask Jensen what the prosthetic he wore in that scene looked like. And he confirmed that it did not in any way look like a face. Whether the amulet still has a significant role to play is unknown but right now unless Kripke plays up the illusion we saw into a story line thread (hmmm could the amulet be the reason Anna hears angels) then I think the illusion was accidental. Still in case Kripke ever decides to use it I will leave the meta up as a record. I would like to thank shadowfax220 for pointing out the image to me at the Dallas convention and give credit to the Legacy site for the Making of "No Rest for the Wicked Pictures" and Super-Wicki for the use of the amulet image.

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Below is a screen cap of Dean in hell. Note the right hand lower corner.


I have highlighted the image in yellow. It almost seems to have wings. But on closer examination I realized that the profile actually looked like something I had seen before, Dean's Amulet. Which doesn't mean that it doesn't have wings, its just that wings are of lesser importance than the profile.


Next I took the side view of Dean's amulet from Super-Wicki and overlaid it on the image found on Dean's Shirt. The profile matches almost exactly accept for the open mouth and the horns.




From here I modified the amulet image to open its mouth and cant the head backwards on the neck. Empty spaces were filled in with patterns from the original amulet to smooth out the image

What I find particularly fascinating is how Dean's sweat corresponds to the amulet exhaling. I suspect this represents the "Breath of Life" as many ancient religions as well as Christianity have stories where a divine being breathes life into the dead or the inanimate. If, as it is theorized on Super-Wicki , the amulet is of an Egyptian goddess, BAT, whose name is a feminized version of the Egyptian symbol for Soul then that would seem very appropriate. Another possibility is that the amulet represents Isis. Isis in many images has both HORNS and WINGS and there is a suggestion of wings on Dean's shirt. She would also work well in this role as her spheres of influence include magic, rebirth, the womanly gifts and motherhood causing her to be be in direct opposition to Lilith the Seductress and the destroyer of children. Also unlike Bat who is all but forgotten the mystery cult of Isis lasted well into the 6th century and old images of her are still suspected to be in some European churches masquerading as Black Madonnas. Additionally Isis is known to have assimilated Hathor and her characteristics, who in turn assimilated Bat. Consequently Isis=Hathor=Bat would be a fair conclusion. Equally possible is that the face is the visage of an angel as not every angelic messenger is human. Cherubs have been described as having bull like aspects as well as human faces and Sumarian depictions of their angelic messengers

The only thing I couldn't explain was the horns until I saw this image on the Legacysite.


Note the placement of the meat hook and now compare it with the same image highlighted and a simple amulet overlay. The pointed end of the meat hook forms the horn of the amulet. Even the eye of the hook serves a purpose as it could represent the ring on the amulet.




The image in the last three pictures might not have seemed as compelling as the earlier screen caps, but at a distance the image does stand out as shown on another Legacy site picture below.


Whether Kripke and the writers will take a random choice by the actor and a accidental visual effect and use it to further the story remains to be seen. Regardless the image is creepily accurate for all that it is random.