(^100) A Wiccan Bible
Canaanite Triple Goddess—Female—Middle East/Mediterranean
Name Description
Arsai Earth Maiden
Pidrai Light Maiden
Tallai Rain Maiden
The Three Mothers—Female—Middle East/Mediterranean
The Hebrew/Cabalistic trinity of the Three Mothers with Elemental association and a
correspondence to the Hebrew alphabet.
Name Element
Aleph Air
Mem Water
Shin Fire
She has been called on many ways by the many different cultures of humanity, but
none in the Wiccan religion more often than in what has become an almost universally
accepted document called the Charge of the Goddess. Know that Gerald Gardner and
Raymond Buckland referred to this Charge over and over simply as either The Charge
or A Charge. Indeed, during the time of its creation there seems to be little reference
to its current most commonly accepted title, so I prefer the title that accompanied it as
I originally received it, A Charge of Our Mother. Please note that in using this title, I
am not renaming either piece of work. I am simply addressing the many different vari-
ants as Charges of Our Mother, each individual Charge being called A Charge of Our
Mother.
Our Lady is called, invited, or invoked in many ways—so many different ways that
even though you will find half the books on Wicca state that the Charge of Our Mother
(more often called the Charge or the Charge of the Goddess) has become beloved by
Wiccans everywhere, you will find just as many different versions for that Charge. The
following version is what I copied into my Book of Shadows when I was a teen. I have
seen it attributed at least 20 different ways to Doreen Valiente, but few can be exactly
sure who wrote it. Not only did Doreen Valiente not write the Charge of the Goddess,
I do not believe she ever published it. Instead, she was rather clear that Aleister Crowley
wrote the original Gardnerian Charge of the Goddess, and that she had only rewritten
it with great inclusions from Aradia: Gospel of Witches. She did, however, state that it
appears in works by the Farrars with very little difference from her version. It is also
important to note that there are not only many wildly different variations attributed to
Doreen Valiente, but there are also versions almost word for word that are not attrib-
uted to Doreen Valiente. The following version is not the same as the Charge of the
Goddess cited in the Farrars’ work. Therefore, I do not believe it is the work of Doreen
Valiente, although perhaps similar.
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