Trivigaunte

Nicholas Gevers · 25 Jun 2003, 06:33 · from urth-v0306.mbox · original

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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Nicholas=20Gevers?= <vermoulian at yahoo.com>
Subject: (urth) Trivigaunte
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 07:33:36 +0100 (BST)
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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.

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