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Doreen Edith Dominy Valiente (4 January 1922 – 1 September 1999) was an English Wiccan who was responsible for writing much of the early religious liturgy within the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca. An author and poet, she also published five books dealing with Wicca and related esoteric subjects.
In its best known form as the "eight words" couplet, the Rede was first publicly recorded in a 1964 speech by Doreen Valiente. [1] Other variants of the Rede include: Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill, An it harm none do what ye will. Note: this is the first published form of the couplet, quoted from Doreen Valiente in 1964.
In 1953, Gardner initiated a young woman named Doreen Valiente into the coven, and she soon went on to become the new High Priestess. Around the same time, Gardner composed the coven's Book of Shadows, a workbook of rituals, although he claimed it was of ancient origins. Valiente's influence on the developing religion was immediately felt.
The Presidency was taken up by Doreen Valiente. [3] On 3 October 1964, the WRA held a dinner in which fifty Witches were present. [3] At the dinner, Valiente gave an address in which she called for the reunification of what she believed where the many scattered remains of the Murrayite witch-cult across Britain. [3]
— Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess [4] This theme echoes the ancient Roman belief that the Goddess Isis was known by ten thousand names and also that the Goddess still worshipped today by Wiccans and other neopagans is known under many guises but is in fact one universal divinity.
In 1953, Doreen Valiente joined Gardner's Bricket Wood coven, and soon rose to become its High Priestess.She noticed how much of the material in his Book of Shadows was taken not from ancient sources as Gardner had initially claimed, but from the works of the occultist Aleister Crowley, from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, from the Key of Solomon and also from the rituals of Freemasonry. [8]
Doreen Lioy outside the gates of San Quentin Prison, after she married serial killer "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez on Thursday Oct. 3, 1996 in San Quentin, CA.
Gardner gave his written permission for this, and it was adopted by other practitioners of the craft, such as Doreen Valiente. [17] This was the beginning of the belief in the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. Dayonis moved to Canada in October 1959, and Lois Bourne became the coven's high priestess. [18]