There was a time when I would have been deeply afraid of anyone as non-Disney as the Morrigan, right—my nickname for her is ‘Morgues’—but now I’m not offended or anything by her, although I often find her a little strange/confusing, if intriguing, and yet also not a good fit, often…. I do believe in ‘worshipping’ I guess, the gods, and not just doing deals with them, although sometimes I wonder if coming to them with a stick firmly placed up the ass comes off as ‘respectful’ or just stiff and kind of disrespectful; I can’t explain it. I feel like I can be too loyal as it is, and that Hermes doesn’t want my fake loyalty so much as other things—it’s hard to explain. It would be easy to make it sound like something it’s not…. But yeah, if I were the god, I would be ‘interested’ in the Morrigan, but I wouldn’t want to marry her. Being protected/complimented (complementary, I mean) IS nice, but I feel like partners should be more similar than they sometimes are, not a mystery to each other. Sometimes ‘boss’ people are kinda a mystery to me…. Even when I was a kid, I thought I was like that, I thought I was Little Ares, but I wonder what Ares thought of that…. 😸

As for Morgan, the author: I’m trying not to go into “callously dismissing offended-brainiac Recons, and giggling with Hermes”, although I feel a little justified with that, sometimes, although it is true that she’s just the “classically good brainiac reporting the views of others” (barfing gesture behind her back) and isn’t really that bad…. I guess I’ll even buy another Pagan Portals/Morgan book (she didn’t write all of them, but she wrote Many! of them), because she provides good information—it is useful to know the intuitions of others—and a different perspective, right. And I don’t know as much about the Celts/Northerners, and I think that the whole Greek/Southern thing can get quite stereotypical/vanilla, even a bit colonial, if you’re not careful—as cool as they can be, as individuals.

…. So yeah.

…. Hopefully it’s a truism by now to say that Morgues isn’t just-a-bee, but also a queen, and also Hermie of course can be the ‘dark god’ when he has a serious need for respect, or is Straight Outta Patience, right. It’s like with masculine and feminine: I don’t think there’s been a culture where each hasn’t had a family of meaning, but they’re not just-separate, right; they interpenetrate. It’s like that with the ‘dark god’. Of course, one wouldn’t want to go off the tracks with inappropriate anger, like Florinda Donner (the Castaneda girl) when she was uninitiated, but that could be equally Morgues or Hermie, in their mask as the god sleeping in the madman. Which is I suppose what they are in most of us.

Good integration of information about the Morrigan from ancient Irish myth to modern day worship. Impressive bibliography and scholarly research despite the books short 79 pages. Upon finishing it I wanted more, which is always a good sign. ( )

A wealth of information for such a small book. Anecdotes about the Morrigan in Daimler's own life were particularly interesting.

That being said, I didn't find it as accessible as it claims to be, unless you're already more familiar with Irish mythology than the average non-Irish person is likely to be. Some quick explanations of the many stories/people/things referenced would've been useful. Also, a bit of editing was needed in terms of punctuation and typos. ( )