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Reign of the Seven Spellblades, Vol. 4 By Bokuto Uno, Ruria Miyuki, Andrew Cunningham

Morgan le Fay (note the masculine appellation) fares worse than any other character except Mordred (her son with Arthur) in the retellings by Cistercian monks who satanise her without ever quite removing her potent role in Arthur's holy progress - she still provides the scabbard for Excalibur which means Arthur cannot bleed from war wounds (until he loses it), she provides the magical disguise by which Lancelot impregnates the Grail Maiden with Galahad (believing her to be Guinevere) and adds a similar riddling magic to the quest of the Green Knight. Crucially, she also helps remove the dying Arthur to Avalon, from which he will one day to return to save us. She is far too elemental and cryptic - 'fatal' is good word for her - to be exactly benign even in the original mythology but the Cisercians' femme fatale tells us as much about their fear of women as it does about this mother/wife/death goddess.

Morgan and Arthur had the same mother - Ygraine of Cornwall - but her father was Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall whilst his was officially Sir Ector but actually Uther Pendragon who killed Gorlois and came to Ygraine's bed wearing a magical helmet (provided by Merlin) which made him look like the husband he'd killed. Morgan returns the magical compliment later by making the Grail Maiden look like Guinevere in order to seduce Lancelot. 'Du' means black and represents the unconscious and is also a dual language pun on "Duw' (God) and dew (as in the morning).


Morgan le Fay
on her magical horse
black as the night
unconscious force
mourning the Du
beneath and beyond
all we think say and do
dying to be born
on a bridal (sic) away
part healing
in to the Whole,
the slumbering Soul
and the only Way
to catch the boar king
as he gallops away
Morgan le fay
Morgan le fay.

I love males, yet live makeless.
The long night and false dawn still lingers lonely
As day breaks my dike brook's bed
Diluting with grey light my Du-distilled soul.

I give birth, yet grave brothers
My mothering bosom of womb-mouthing earth
Is death-witch and dearth's country
Both vessel you're born on and vestige's barque.

Morgan le Fay
on her magical horse
black as the night
unconscious force
mourning the Du
beneath and beyond
all we think say and do
dying to be born
on a bridal (sic) away
part healing
in to the Whole,
the slumbering Soul
and the only Way
to catch the boar king
as he gallops away
Morgan le fay
Morgan le fay.

I bride men and breed Mordreds,
The world's consummation weds its confounding,
The lightning of love's moon lore
Will strike dead the armed man sick-nursed in these arms.

I brave blood, a bereaved bride,
God's mother and man's Eve, a death moth and Mary,
O Arthur ardent brother,
The love sword you bury here will seed the whole world.

Morgan le Fay
on her magical horse
black as the night
unconscious force
mourning the Du
beneath and beyond
all we think say and do
dying to be born
on a bridal (sic) away
part healing
in to the Whole,
the slumbering Soul
and the only Way
to catch the boar king
as he gallops away
Morgan le fay
Morgan le fay.
credits
from King Arthur and Me: The Opera, released May 1, 2024
Cover ('Morgana') by Bhas Allan (pictured)
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Morgan Le Fay

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