Morning Star

Morning Star or Morningstar may refer to:

Astronomy

• Morning star, a name for the planet Venus when it appears in the east before sunrise
• Morning star, a name for the star Sirius, which appears in the sky just before sunrise during the Dog Days
• Morning star, a (less common) name for the planet Mercury when it appears in the east before sunrise

Mythology

• Morning Star, one of the Zorya (gods in Slavic mythology)
• The Latin name of the Morning Star has been given to Lucifer in Christian tradition

People thus named

• Morning Star (chief), Northern Cheyenne leader, also known as Dull Knife
• Richard Morningstar (born 1945), ambassador, Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy
• Erica Morningstar (born 1989), Canadian swimmer
• Chip Morningstar, author, developer, programmer and designer of software systems

People thus compared

• Nebuchadnezzar II in Isaiah 14:12
• Jesus is described as "the bright morning star" in Revelation 22:16
• John the Baptist, called a "bright morning star" in Eastern Orthodox Church hymnnology
• Mary the mother of Jesus, called "morning star" in the Litany of Loreto

Places

• Morning Star Lake (Nebraska)
• Morning Star, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Morning Star, Roane County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Morningstar airfield, near Melkbosstrand, Cape Town, Western Cape, Republic of South Africa

Transportation

Ships

• HMS Morning Star, six ships of the Royal Navy
• Morning Star, original name of the USS Estes (AGC-12), an amphibious force command ship
• Morning Star (ship), wrecked in the Torres Strait in 1814
• Morning Star, former name of the cruise ship Salamis Glory

In railways

• Morning Star (train), passenger train formerly operated by St. Louis Southwestern Railway
• GWR Star Class "Morning Star", broad gauge steam locomotive

Business

• Morningstar Farms, a brand of vegetarian food
• Morning Star Series, a brand of incense
• Morningstar Air Express, a cargo airline based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Morningstar, Inc., Chicago-based investment research firm
• The Morning Star Company, a California-based agribusiness and food processing company

Video games

• Morning Star (video game)

Music

• The Morningstars, a band fronted by Sierra Leonean musician S. E. Rogie
• Morning Star (Hubert Laws album), by the jazz flautist Hubert Laws
• Morning Star (Entombed album), by the Swedish death metal band Entombed
• Morning Star (Flunk album), by the Norwegian electronic music band Flunk
• Morning Star (Spear of Destiny album)
• Morning Star, by the British Group 'The Shadows' in their 1976 album 'Rarities'
• Morningstar, an album by the American electronic music band Asmodeus X
• Criminal Intents/Morning Star, a 2009 EP by the band Dope Stars Inc.
• "Morning Star", a song by Nat King Cole from his album St. Louis Blues
• "Morningstar", a song by the American alternative rock band AFI from their 2000 album The Art of Drowning
• "Morgenstern (Morning Star)", a song by Rammstein on their 2004 album Reise, Reise
• "The Morningstar", a song by the Swedish gothic doom metal band Draconian on their 2006 album The Burning Halo
• "Morning Star", a musical work for wind ensemble composed by David Maslanka
• "Morning Star" (song), a song by British hip hop group N-Dubz
• "Morning Star", a song by Roger Shah featuring the voice of Moya Brennan
• "Morning Star", a song by the Brazilian power metal band Angra on their 2004 album Temple of Shadows
• "Morning Star", a traditional Moravian carol, originated as a poem by Johannes Scheffler in 1657 and put to music by Francis F. Hagen in 1836.
• "Draconian Trilogy: Morning Star", a song by the Swedish symphonic metal band Therion on their 1998 album "Vovin".
• "Morning Star, Durbanville", a song by the South African punk rock band Fokofpolisiekar on their 2006 album Swanesang

Literature

• The Morning Star, a play by Emlyn Williams
• Morning Star (novel), by Simon Raven
• Morningstar, a novel by David Gemmell
• The Morning Star, a trilogy of novels by Nick Bantock
• Morning Star, a novel by Sir Henry Rider Haggard
• The Morning Star, poem by Mihai Eminescu
• The Morning Star, a 1979 book of poems and translations by Kenneth Rexroth
• Morning Star (comics), a fictional Marvel Comics villain
• Morningstar, a superhero from the Bogatyri comic books
• Morningstar, a character in the Elementals comic book
• Morning Star, a character in the Noble Warriors Trilogy of novels by William Nicholson
• Morningstar, a character from the novel Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny
• Lucifer Morningstar, a DC Comics character who primarily appears in The Sandman comic books by Neil Gaiman
• At-Tariq, "The Morning Star", the 86th sura of the Qur'an
• Morning Star, an upcoming novel by [Pierce Brown]

Other uses

• Morning star (weapon), a spiked mace
• Morning Star (newspaper), a list of newspapers
• Morning Star (cannabis), a strain of Cannabis sativa
• Morning Star (TV series), a short-lived American soap opera
• Morning star (candlestick pattern), a formation in a financial candlestick chart
• Morning Star, a painting by Alex Janvier
• Morning Star, the name of a seemingly important, yet currently unrevealed plot point for the final season of the TV show Parks and Recreation that has created a rift between Leslie and Ron.

See also

• Morning Star flag, the national flag of West Papua
• Morningstar commune, commune formed in the San Francisco area in the mid-1960s
• Morning Star Boys' Ranch, Spokane, Washington
• Morning Star ceremony, ritual ceremony including human sacrifice performed by the Pawnee tribe into the 19th century
• John Wycliffe, the English theologian, sometimes referred to as the "Morning Star of the Reformation"
• Morning Star Trust, U.K.-based, Christian sail training charity
• Morning Star International, former name of Every Nation Churches, an organization of non-denominational churches
• Evening Star (disambiguation)
• Morgenstern (disambiguation)