Etymology of Wicca five times in Gerald Gardner's book "The Meaning of Witchcraft" (1959), as well as in other early texts propagating Pagan Witchcraft, such as Doreen Valiente's "Where Witchcraft Lives" (1962) and Justine Glass' "Witchcraft, The Sixth Sense – and Us" (1965). None of these specifically referred to the Pagan Witchcraft religion as "Wicca". The earliest known published reference for the word "Wicca" is within an advertisement published in a 1962 issue of "Fate" magazine; in this, a Cardiff-based group of Pagan Witches advertised a tradition as "Wicca–Dianic and Aradian". The advert may have been linked to Charles and Mary Cardell because
Wicca Wicca developed a theology rooted in the worship of what they described as "one deity, without gender". In the 1970s, Dianic Wiccan groups developed which were devoted to a singular, monotheistic Goddess; this approach was often criticised by members of British Traditional Wiccan groups, who lambasted such Goddess monotheism as an inverted imitation of Christian theology. As in other forms of Wicca, some Goddess monotheists have expressed the view that the Goddess is not an entity with a literal existence, but rather a Jungian archetype. As well as pantheism and duotheism, many Wiccans accept the concept of polytheism, thereby believing