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10 best books like Indo-European Poetry and Myth (M.L. West): The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland, Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions, The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved, The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween: Celebrating the Dark Half of the Year, Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry, The Singer of Tales, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy, The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images, Arts and Ideas

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
AuthorDavid W. Anthony
ISBN0691058873
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery...
Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland
AuthorLady Augusta Gregory
ISBN0901072370
It's always weird to read a book that's essentially a twice-over translation. First the original author translated the myths to English, and that was over a hundred years ago... and then the Polish translator, while trying to keep the archaic and mythical sound of the original, translated it into Polish......
Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions
AuthorHilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
ISBN0815624417
Most people know of Valhalla, the World-Tree and the gods of Norse mythology, or the strange hunts and voyages of the ancient Irish tales. Yet, few people realize the significance of the similarities and contrasts between the religions of the pre-Christian people of north-western Europe. The Celts...
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved
AuthorPeter Vilhelm Glob
ISBN1590170903
One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified...
The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween: Celebrating the Dark Half of the Year
AuthorJean Markale
ISBN0892819006
A comprehensive examination of the rituals and philosophies of the Celtic holiday of Samhain, the inspiration for Halloween.

• Presents the true meaning of this ancient holiday and shows how contemporary observances still faithfully reflect the rituals of pagan ancestors.

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Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry
AuthorGotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN0801831393
حاول الناقد الإلماني ليسنج في كتابه "لاؤوكون" أن يرد الشعر إلى فلسفة زمانية، والتصوير إلى فلسفة مكانية في محاولة لرصد أوجه الاختلاف بينهما، وقد دفعه ذلك...
The Singer of Tales
AuthorAlbert Bates Lord
ISBN0674808819
This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a unique enhancement: a CD containing the original audio recordings of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs...
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,...
The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images
AuthorMarija Gimbutas
ISBN0520046552
European civilization between 6500 and 3500 BC - long before Greek or Judaeo-Christian civilizations flourished - was not a provincial reflection of neighboring Near Eastern cultures but a distinct culture with its own unique identity. The mythical imagery of this matrilinear era tells us much...
Arts and Ideas
AuthorWilliam Fleming
ISBN0155011049
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Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations
AuthorAlexander Carmichael
ISBN0863155200
Carmina Gadelica is the most complete anthology of Celtic oral tradition ever assembled. During his travels, Alexander Carmichael spent hours with peasants in their huts in front of peat fires listening as they "intoned in a low, recitative manner" these poems and prayers. This unique collection...
The Norton Book of Classical Literature
AuthorBernard Knox
ISBN0393034267
Preface
Introduction
Greece
Homer
Hesiod
The archaic lyric & iambus
Archilochus (7th century B.C.)
Tyrtaeus (7th century B.C.)
Alcman (late 7th century B.C.)
Hipponax (middle 6th century B.C.)
Alcaeus (late 7th century-middle 6th century B.C.)...
The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology
AuthorErnst H. Kantorowicz
ISBN0691017042
In 1957 Ernst Kantorowicz published a book that would be the guide for generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. In The King's Two Bodies, Kantorowicz traces the historical problem posed by the "King's two bodies" - the body politic and the body natural -...
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth
AuthorJ.P. Mallory
ISBN0500276161
This is the third time that I read this book since I bought it last year. Every time I read it I discover something new. Its an amazing book for anyone interested in the Indo-Europeans.

The book is written from the point of view of an archeologist who has knowledge of historical linguistic methods....
It's Here Now (Are You?)
AuthorBhagavan Das
In his classic book Be Here Now, Ram Dass introduced the world to a young guru named Bhagavan Das. Continuing his own story in It's Here Now (Are You?), Bhagavan Das shares the profound and surreal moments of his spiritual awakening in the East, his fall from grace in the West, and his peaceful reconciliation...
Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins
AuthorColin Renfrew
ISBN0521386756
This is another one of those books which I've read and enjoyed.

The basic idea is that the dominance and spread of Indo-European languages is a puzzle, where did the first speakers come from and how did they get to be ubiquitous from Scandinavia to North India. Renfrew has a neat answer to this...
From Ritual to Romance
AuthorJessie Laidlay Weston
ISBN0486296806
Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as one of the chief sources for his great poem "The Waste Land," Jessie L. Weston's From Ritual to Romance remains a landmark of anthropological and mythological scholarship. In this book she explores the origins of the Grail legend, arguing that it dates back to a primitive...
How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics
AuthorCalvert Watkins
ISBN0195144139
In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language....
Comparative Mythology
AuthorJaan Puhvel
ISBN0801839386
In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mytholoigcal,...
The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future
AuthorCynthia Eller
ISBN0807067938
According to the myth of matriarchal prehistory, men and women lived together peacefully before recorded history. Society was centered around women, with their mysterious life-giving powers, and they were honored as incarnations and priestesses of the Great Goddess. Then a transformation occurred,...
A History of Pagan Europe
AuthorPrudence J. Jones
ISBN0415373336
With this second edition bringing the books completely up to date with analysis of recent work in the area, A History of Pagan Europe is the first comprehensive study of its kind, and establishes Paganism as a persistent force in European history with a profound influence on modern thinking.

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Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia
AuthorE.O.G. Turville-Petre
ISBN0837174201
A comprehensive work on the major gods of the North and the religious practices of its peoples. It does have a scholarly style, but it wasn’t a difficult read. The introduction focuses on the authenticity and reliability of the primary (and fragmentary) sources of Norse Mythology: the Eddas and the...
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