I have read many books and seen various vampire movies that use the name "Morgan". Is there any signifigance about this?
2007-11-23 14:38:18 · 6 answers · asked by ZeeZeeBo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Morgen is a german word meaning morning
Morrigen is the celtic goddess of battle. She was said to be also a goddess of demons. More than likely that was a misinterpretation and then spread to put the proper fear of these fighters in their opposers since the Morrcanites were so fueled with their fire that they fought til the death and fought like demons.
But because they were bad mouthed so much , rumors and tales spread until now Morrigen is said to be this demonic looking creature who spews the dead like a disease across the land. It is these rumors that have fueled Morrigen to be seen as a vampire, since she was a female battle goddess whose ravens collected the souls of the dead.
2007-11-23 14:55:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
the name Morgan also means : born from the sea. Don't know if that relates to vampires in any way.
2007-11-23 21:44:37 · answer #2 · answered by insignificant_other 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MORGAN LeFAY
(Welsh) Welsh death-goddess; Morgan the Fate. Glamorgan in Wales is said to be her sacred territory. She can cast a destroying curse on any man. Gawaine of the Round Table bore Morgan's pentacle as a heraldic device on his blood-red shield. She was the daughter of LeFay, a glamorous Welsh sea Goddess. As the half-sister of King Arthur, she possibly was once a Goddess of Glastonbury Tor, a sacred pagan site intimately associated with the Arthurian myths. Archetypally, Glastonbury functions as a gateway to the Otherworld.
The root of her name, mor, means "sea", and she was a sea Goddess, the place one must cross to reach the isle of the Otherworld. In Brittany, sea sprites which lure sailors to their deaths are called Morgans after her.
Today she is thought of as the final incarnation of the Irish Valkyrie Morrigan, Morgan plays a critical but ambiguous role in the Arthurian cycle. Portrayed as a mortal female deeply learned in Magick and a close relative of Arthur's (maternal half-sister), she is always at odds with Arthur, and is responsible for any of a number of attempts to drag him down. Once he is mortally wounded though, and his cause a pyrrhic and ultimately futile victory, it is Morgan who appears at his side, nursing him and taking him off to the Isle of Avalon, to rest until his presence is needed once more. One gets the distinct impression that she somehow engineered the rise of Arthur to the status of Hero, in order to create an Eternal Champion of Britain.
As a goddess of sovereignty, she backed the Green Knight to take over the kingdom of Camelot. Her Breton name is Morgause.
2007-11-23 23:53:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
not vampires enchanterress' and sorcerrors and stuff.
she was a witch in arthurian tales.
morgan le fay. le fay means the fairy.
she was said to love her brother ( not true) her son was the illigitamate son of his and killed him. morgan married the king of the fairys and li9ved on the immortale island of apples when arthurain was mortally wounded he was sent to live their with her till the day he would return to save england from the sassons or something.
2007-11-23 19:13:52 · answer #4 · answered by k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think peopel just like the name morgan for a vampire.the name is strong a little dark ,sounds like morganna who was like a fairytale witch or something
2007-11-23 14:53:57 · answer #5 · answered by btvs.witch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty sure it's just a coincidence.
2007-11-23 14:49:50 · answer #6 · answered by chedderfish 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋