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10 best books like Celtic Myths and Legends (Peter Berresford Ellis): The Norse Myths, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend and Folklore, Irish Folk Tales, Celtic Fairy Tales, The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, The Humanistic Tradition: Prehistory to the Early Modern World (The Humanistic Tradition, #1), The Alhambra, Spices: A Global History, Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume II

The Norse Myths
AuthorKevin Crossley-Holland
Here are thirty-two classic myths that bring the Viking world vividly to life. The mythic legacy of the Scandinavians includes a cycle of stories filled with magnificent images from pre-Christian Europe. Gods, humans, and monstrous beasts engage in prodigious drinking bouts, contests of strength,...
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
AuthorW.Y. Evans-Wentz
ISBN1564147088
When I lived in a cabin in Big Sur, I holed up with a copy of Fairy-Faith. It awakened me to the reality of subtle beings indwelling the immense silence of the redwood forests.

Evans-Wenz, who was a friend of Yeats, takes a half-poetic, half-anthropological approach. The most exciting passages...
A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend and Folklore
AuthorW.B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (pronounced /ˈjeɪts/) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years Yeats served as an Irish Senator for two terms. He was a driving force behind the...
Irish Folk Tales
AuthorHenry Glassie
Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild Gaelic...
Celtic Fairy Tales
AuthorJoseph Jacobs
ISBN0486218260
The two volumes of Celtic folk tales collected by the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) introduced the children of the world to the special vision and color, the unique magic of the Celtic folk imagination.
The 26 stories of "Guleesh," "The Horned Women," "King O'Toole and...
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
AuthorRobert E. Buswell Jr.
ISBN0691157863
With more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese,...
The Humanistic Tradition: Prehistory to the Early Modern World (The Humanistic Tradition, #1)
AuthorGloria K. Fiero
ISBN0072910127
""The Humanistic Tradition" is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful....
The Alhambra
AuthorRobert Irwin
ISBN0674015681


A wonderfully irritable monograph, which is motivated primarily by Robert Irwin's annoyance over how other writers of poetry, fiction and guidebooks have treated the Alhambra: as a grand Romantic symbol, the pretext for a lot of ubi sunt wistfulness, and the setting of innumerable historical...
Spices: A Global History
AuthorFred Czarra
ISBN1861894260
The scent of oregano immediately conjures the comforts of Italian food, curry is synonymous with Indian flavor, and the fire of chili peppers ignites the cuisine of Latin America. Spices are often the overlooked essentials that define our greatest eating experiences. In this global history of spices,...
Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume II
AuthorHelen Gardner
ISBN9780495573
In its acclaimed tenth edition, the most successful art history every written is now made available to the book trade and the consumer market for the first time. The history of art has been, successively, a history of artists and their works, of styles and stylistic change, of images--and now, of context...
The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span
AuthorGreg Nagan
ISBN0684867672
Was Homer really blind, or was that just his shtick? Was Dante a righty or a lefty? Why aren't there any pictures of Jane Austen in a bikini? What made Oscar so Wilde? How much did Hemingway? These are just some of the many great questions of Western literature ignored in this book.
From the author of...
Pagan Celtic Britain
AuthorAnne Ross
ISBN0897334353
Although some aspects of pre-Roman and pre-Christian beliefs remain shrouded in mystery, the author of this comprehensive, profusely illustrated volume contends that neither the Roman invasion of Britain nor the coming of Christianity eliminated pagan religious practice. Dr. Anne Ross writes...
The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy
AuthorRonald Hutton
ISBN0631189467
Wish I'd read this years ago. It presents itself as a summary of the evidence of ancient British religion for the general reader, which accounts for the first half of each chronological chapter, and which H. does extremely well (the answer being, in each case, that there isn't much). The fun starts, though,...
Early Irish Myths and Sagas
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0140443975
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle...
Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales
AuthorAlwyn Rees
ISBN0500270392
In this widely acclaimed study, Alwyn and Brinley Rees reinterpret Celtic tradition in the light of advances made in the comparative study of religion, mythology and anthropology. Part One considers the distinguishing features of the various Cycle of tales and the personages who figure most prominently...
Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend
AuthorMiranda Aldhouse-Green
ISBN0500279756
Warlike, exuberant and superstitious, the ancient Celts saw divinities in every facet of life and nature, venerating deities of the sun, thunder, water, war, healing, hunting, fertility and death. They possessed a complicated array of concepts and rituals, a powerful priesthood - the Druids - and...
The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisdom: A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook
AuthorCaitlín Matthews
ISBN1852305606
The Celtic tradition is a source of inspiration to many seeking to discover their ancestral spiritual heritage. This superb sourcebook contains many new translations of seminal Celtic texts, including stories, poems, and prose pieces, some dating from as far back as the seventh century. Key ingredients...
Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
AuthorJames MacKillop
ISBN0192801201
This new work offers an exhaustive survey of one of the world's most fertile and exciting mythological traditions. It covers the persons, themes, concepts, places, and creatures of Celtic mythology, in all its ancient and modern traditions, in 4000 entries ranging from brief definitions to extended...
The Ancient Celts
AuthorBarry W. Cunliffe
ISBN0140254226
The archetypal `barbarians from the north', the Celts were feared for their ferocity in battle and admired as skilled craftsmen. For two and half thousand years the Celts have continued to fascinate all who have come into contact with them. THE ANCIENT CELTS presents an absorbing account of the tribes...
Celtic Gods and Heroes
AuthorMarie-Louise Sjoestedt
ISBN0486414418
There's a surprising amount of information packed into this tiny book about Celtic culture and myth. It's dense reading, and I read each chapter through multiple times and took notes in order to really absorb the information. What I appreciated most about this work is how Sjoestedt highlights the ways...
Women in Celtic Myth: Tales of Extraordinary Women from the Ancient Celtic Tradition
AuthorMoyra Caldecott
ISBN0892813571
In Celtic myth, the mixture of wise spiritual teaching and dramatic imagery creates new, potent, and disturbing visions. This selection of eleven storiessome more than 3,000 years old focuses on the women of ancient British mythology, from the formidable women warriors who trained heros to fight...
Celtic Myths and Legends (Myths of the World)
AuthorCharles Squire
ISBN0517101572
This is one from my PC shelf; not one to read cover-to-cover, I refer back to this from time to time, and read it sporatically. Lots of interesting bits about the Celts..

2/15/08: I am currently in the midst of reading "The Mists of Avalon" (heehee), and so I am reading bits of this as a sort of "background";...
Harem: The World Behind the Veil
AuthorAlev Lytle Croutier
ISBN1558591591
I've been meaning to read this book for quite some time now as the idea of the harem has always set my imagination on fire.

Harem: The World Behind the Veil sets out to tell us the truth about The Great Harem and harems in general from the time of the ottoman sultans to the present.

We are told...
Celtic Myths and Legends
AuthorT.W. Rolleston
ISBN0486265072
This splendidly illustrated study by the distinguished Celticist T. W. Rolleston masterfully retells the great Celtic myths and illuminates the world that spawned them. Focusing principally on Irish myths, the book first takes up the history and religion of the Celts, the myths of the Irish invasion...
Kindling the Celtic Spirit: Ancient Traditions to Illumine Your Life Through the Seasons
AuthorMara Freeman
In this beautiful treasury of sacred wisdom, Mara Freeman shares the rich legacy of the Celts -- the festivals, gods and goddesses, saints, faeries, music, poetry, and storytelling that anchor this magical tradition. Discover myths, rituals, recipes, and crafts for every month of theyear. Honor...
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