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Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart (born Diana Moore, formerly Morning Glory Zell) is a Neopagan poet, author, lecturer, and priestess. She is of Irish and Choctaw Indian ancestry.
Morning Glory began her involvement with neo-paganism in 1968, becoming an eclectic priestess of Shamanism. In 1969, she gave birth to a daughter, Gail, and pursued a full-time career as a writer and a mother. She traveled to Minneapolis for the Gnostica Aquarian Convention in 1973, where she met Oberon Zell-Ravenheart (then Tim Zell). She moved to St. Louis to study theology with the Church of All Worlds, where she was ordained as a Priestess a year later. She and Oberon were married in 1974. She has written, lectured and taught intermittently, co-editing Green Egg Magazine from 1973-75. Her primary focus for eight years (1977-85) was on the establishment of a wilderness retreat center dedicated to Holy Mother Earth.
Since then Zell-Ravenheart has facilitated workshops at many events and festivals over the years, such as science fiction conventions, renaissance fairs, and Pagan and interfaith religious festivals. She co-founded the Ecosophical Research Association in 1984, an organization that explores the truth behind myths.
Oberon and Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart have appeared at over 20 Starwood Festivals (and a few WinterStar Symposiums) over the past 25 years; because of this, there has been a Church of All Worlds presence at Starwood, called the CAWmunity, for over a decade. Drw
Her article "A Bouquet of Lovers", first published in Green Egg Magazine in May 1990, contained one of the first modern English uses of the term "polyamory". She is active in the polyamorous community.[1]
She is best known for the creation of the "living unicorn" created by minor surgery to the horn buds of a goat, a technique first attempted by Dr. W. Franklin Dove, a biologist in 1935. One of their "unicorns", Lancelot, toured with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Along with her co-husband Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and other members of their group marriage, Zell-Ravenheart runs Mythic Images, a Neopagan business devoted to creating and selling votive statuary, jewelry, and books. Much of the artwork is created by the Ravenhearts, and is based upon both historical Pagan artifacts and original designs.[2]
In 2006 she was diagnosed with a broken spine and multiple myeloma. She is currently undergoing a course of chemotherapy, along with surgical and radiation treatment.
Creating Circles & Ceremonies: Rituals for All Seasons And Reasons, with Oberon Zell-Ravenheart. New Page Books, 2006. ISBN 1-56414-864-5
Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard, with Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, et al. New Page Books, 2004. ISBN 1-56414-711-8
Articles
Brigit of the Celts in AMARGI Vol I. No.3, Feb. 1st 1989
A Bouquet of Lovers: Strategies for Responsible Open Relationships in Green Egg #89, Beltane 1990
Satanism vs. Neo-Pagan Witchcraft, with Otter Zell, in Green Egg, 1995
"Firelight and Moon-Shadows: A Survey of Wiccan Lore" in Pop! Goes The Witch: The Disinformation Guide to 21st Century Witchcraft, ed. by Fiona Horne. The Disinformation Company, 2004. ISBN 0-9729529-5-0
Short stories
"The Golden Egg", (ss) Sword and Sorceress #5, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW 1988
"A Lesser of Evils", (ss) Sword and Sorceress #6, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW 1990
