Trivigaunte

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.