In the neopagan religions of Stregheria and Wicca, Aradia was the daughter of Diana and Lucifer. Some believe Her to have been the Roman equivalent of the Greek Hera Dea, the daughter of Artemis and Phosporus, however there is very little evidence that such a character existed in Greek mythology. Oddly, there exist Celtic inscriptions in Italy reported by Carlo Ginzburg to have been dedicated to a goddess named Hera Dea. Neopaganism (sometimes Neo-Paganism, meaning New Paganism) describes a heterogeneous group of modern religions, many of which attempt to revive ancient, mainly European pre-Christian, and often pre-Judaic religions. ... Stregheria is an antiquated word for witchcraft in the Toscano dialect of the Italian language. ... A Neo-Pagan pentagram: a symbol used by many Wiccans. ... Diana was the equivalent in Roman mythology of the Greek Artemis (see Roman/Greek equivalency in mythology for more details). ... Lucifer is a Latin word made up of two words, lux (light; genitive lucis) and ferre (to bear, to bring), meaning light-bearer. ... Roman mythology can be considered as two parts. ... This article is about the Greek goddess. ... In Greek tradition, Phosporus was the personification of the evening star (Venus). ... The word Celtic can refer to: the European Celtic people, ancient or modern the Celtic languages, spoken by these people and their modern descendents the Celtic (Lusitania), Celts from the Alentejo. ... Carlo Ginsburg is a noted historian and pioneer of microhistory. ...

Another theory, first suggested by Charles Godfrey Leland in his 1899 publication of Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches, is that the name "Aradia" is a corruption of "Cult of Herodias". In Greek, herodias is the word for "heron", the bird; in Latin the same bird is ardea. Some suggest she is derived from the Greek Ariadne consort of Dionysus Herodias was a Jewish princess famous for her beauty and love affairs, daughter of Aristobulus III of Judea. ... Genera Ardea Zebrilus Philherodias Tigrisoma Ardeola Bubulcus Egretta Agamia Butorides Tigriornis Tigrisoma Gorsachius Syrigma Zonerodius Nycticorax see also: Bittern Heron and reeds, Haronobu Suzuki (1754-1770) Herons are medium to large long-legged, long-necked wading birds of the family Ardeidae, which also includes the egrets and bitterns. ... Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Ariadne (utterly pure, from a Cretan-Greek form for arihagne) was a fertility goddess of Crete. ... Bacchus by Caravaggio The god Dionysus is occasionally confused with one of several historical figures named Dionysius, a theophoric name that simply means [servant] of Dionysus. ...

Aradia is believed by most adherents of Stregheria to have been incarnated into a woman named Aradia de Toscano in the early 1300s. Incarnation, which literally means enfleshment, refers to the conception, and live birth of a sentient creature (generally human) who is the material manifestation of an entity or force whose original nature is immaterial. ... In Stregheria, Aradia de Toscano is a female quasi-messianic figure thought to be the human incarnation of the demigoddess Aradia, who in turn was the daughter of the Roman god Lucifer and the Roman goddess Diana. ...