Lucifer Italian witch-cult. In Leland's mythology, Diana pursued her brother Lucifer across the sky as a cat pursues a mouse. According to Leland, after dividing herself into light and darkness: Here, the motions of Diana and Lucifer once again mirror the celestial motions of the moon and Venus, respectively. Though Leland's Lucifer is based on the classical personification of the planet Venus, he also incorporates elements from Christian tradition, as in the following passage: In the several modern Wiccan traditions based in part on Leland's work, the figure of Lucifer is usually either omitted or replaced as Diana's consort with either
With Her in Ourland then, it has been re-printed several times, usually as a part of "Utopian Trilogy" anthologies. Due to the large gap between the re-publication of "Herland" and "With Her in Ourland", critical response to "With Her in Ourland" has been relatively light compared to that of "Herland". In general, the critical reception to "With Her in Ourland" is that it is a weaker novel than its predecessor. The didactic structure of the narrative is often criticized as being less engaging than that of "Herland", while some of the opinions offered by Gilman, usually in the form of Ellador's "prescriptions" are considered