Charge of the Goddess opening paragraph names a collection of goddesses, some derived from Greek or Roman mythology, others from Celtic or Arthurian legends, affirming a belief that these various figures represent a single Great Mother: 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. The second paragraph is largely derived and paraphrased from the words that Aradia, the messianic daughter of Diana, speaks to her followers in Charles Godfrey Leland's
SS Lucifer started, continued for almost five hours. About an hour after captain Wilson, who was the last person to leave the doomed ship, boarded "Sagami", "Lucifer" foundered. All 35 men from "Lucifer" were safely landed at Falmouth on April 28. The dutch steamer "SS Ryndam" which arrived at Rotterdam a few days earlier, claimed to have spoken to "Lucifer" on April 12, but was informed that while her stokehold was filled with water and pump was out of order, the tanker did not require assistance. SS Lucifer Lucifer was a steam tanker built in 1899 by the C.S. Swan & Hunter