This post is a day late because we went out last night to a hockey game. Great game. I’ll talk about it in Monday’s post because we’re also going to a game Sunday.
So, I’m talking about monsters today. Not the human kind. Those are too real and I explore those in my books. I’m talking the fictional kind. The kind that make your imagination go wild. There are a lot of those too and it’s hard to pick my favourite. Since I use Fridays to talk about the weird stuff out there I can eventually talk about them all. Today’s monster is going to be The Morrigan.
Okay, so if you read the Wikipedia information about her she’s not really a monster. She’s a figure of Irish mythology. She’s a phantom queen who was a goddess of battle, strife and fertility. But under the monster entry she’s listed there. And I’m glad she was because of course I’m getting ideas.
She sometimes appears as a crow. She also takes the form of an eel, a wolf and a cow. She is considered a triple goddess. Sometimes she appears as three sisters. Other times she appears alone. She is usually seen as a war goddess, able to have visions of a warrior’s death. That ability suggests links to the banshee. But there is more to suggest her connections were to the earth and fertility.
I found so much information about her in just the Wikipedia article I’m going to have to go searching the internet for more information about her. I can see the story possibilities.
Time to post this so I can get it up before Sunday.
Until next time…
Cindy
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