# Trivigaunte *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 25 Jun 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *25 Jun 2003, 06:33* So Trivigante is a name for the Moon Goddess, eh? The mystery of Trivigaunte in LONG SUN is solved at last. A typically witty appropriation by Wolfe: in the online Occultopedia, it's stated that Trivigante is the original Italian form of Termagant; in the Renaissance Morality Plays, Trivigante was an overbearing, tyrannical character in flowing Eastern robes, which apparel led to the assumption Trivigante was female. So when Wolfe invented an Arabic-speaking city state dominated by militaristic viragos, Trivigaunte was a natural name to assign it... --Nick Gevers. ---