Etymology of Wicca published; the earliest was Paul Huson's "Mastering Witchcraft" (1970), which made no reference to "Wicca". This was followed by Raymond Buckland's "The Tree: The Complete Book of Saxon Witchcraft", in which he propagated his newly developed tradition of Seax-Wica; utilising "Wica" as the name of the tradition, he also referenced "the Wicca" as the name of the religion as a whole. Contrastingly, during the 1970s the term "Wicca" was rejected by feminist Pagan Witchcraft groups in the United States, in particular the Dianic tradition; the term does not appear in the early works of Zsuzsanna Budapest and Starhawk, although the
Chthonioi Alexandrian Wicca as equally valid, lineaged, proper Initiations and part of our Tradition." Because of the acceptance of same-sex initiations, some elders of Alexandrian Wicca do not recognize Chthonioi-Alexandrian tradition as "Alexandrian". Chthonioi Alexandrian Wicca Chthonioi Alexandrian Wicca is a Boston-area family of Alexandrian Wicca-derived covens directly downline from Coven Chthonioi. Coven Chthonioi grew out of the Alexandrian practice of its founders in the 1970s, has an unbroken lineage back to Alex Sanders and Maxine Sanders, and has been in continuous operation since 1974. This coven is the originator of the cycle of rituals that has become known as the Book of