What is 'Morigel'?

A net-search will reveal that 'Morigel' is used as a pseudonym by many, but I have yet to find a 'scholarly' explanation as to what (if anything) Morigel is in a mythological, religious, literary or other context.

But the term, and the use of the raven as a logo is not based upon air.

First, the logo; It is not my creation, but I found it on the net a few years ago, whilst looking for a raven. I did get permission from the creator(s) to use it, but both the identity of the creator and the text that approves it is lost in various computer-crashes and broken disks.

Take an extra look at the 'birdie'. Look closely, and you will see that the fragmented body actually consists of several small birds, that look as one when the Image is viewed from a distance. The Image works for me as a logo for larping, as it is consistent with my view of larp and larpers.

Now the name - 'Morigel'; like I said, I have no source for the name, other than this:
Author Julian May has written a series of novels called 'Saga of the Exiles', and in these there is a figure called Morigel. Explaining the story here would be too lengthy. Thus I advise you to check out the links below to find out what this series is about.

In 'The Pliocene Companion' (a sort of guidebook to the setting of the books) Morigel is described as such:

"in the mythology of Duat, a portent of (the) Nightfall (war), a monstrous black carrion-eating bird. The name can be translated 'raven'. Felice used the nom du guerre Phyllis-Morigel on the way to the torc works in Muriah."

This Felice is one of the main characters of the series. She is a tough little lady, that unfortunately is mistreated severely and she ends up insane. But the story of Felice fascinated me then and still does, so I chose to use her alter ego as the name of these pages.

During the development of the larp-project "Morigel" the word took on a slightly different meaning, but I will get back to this if "Morigel - the larp" should flap its way back into the limelight of my mind. One possible explanation in the newsgroup alt.books.julian-may

Yet another explanation from the same newsgroup - this one implies that Morigel is a form of the name Morrigan, a celtic goddess.

Arman