The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images
10 best books like The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe: Myths and Cult Images (Marija Gimbutas): Brighton Rock, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, Isis Unveiled, Mysterium Coniunctionis, The Mythic Image, Halloween!, After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England, The Once and Future Goddess, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image
| Author | Graham Greene |
| ISBN | 0099478471 |
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear,...
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
| Author | Thomas King |
| ISBN | 0385674058 |
WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize
The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North...
| Author | Jeff Sharlet |
| ISBN | 0060559799 |
A journalist's penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism's most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful.
They are the Family—fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of...
| Author | H.P. Blavatsky |
| ISBN | 0911500030 |
Blavatsky...
dear occultist,
... was a genius and the fact that she wrote so brilliantly in English, which was not even her native language, is amazing. Alas, the thesis in Vol. 1, while still valid and which involves her evidence and arguments that science is lacking when it endeavors...
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0691018162 |
Jung seems to write from the dream state; associations interleaved with digressions punctuated by potent and startling images. This is his most satisfying book for me because it has the simplest premise but is also the largest and richest. He stretches out enormously within a limited range, gathering...
| Author | Joseph Campbell |
| ISBN | 0691018391 |
A paperback edition of Campbell's major study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations over five millennia. It includes nearly 450 illustrations. The text is the same as that of the 1974 edition.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell was a masterful storyteller, able to weave tales...
| Author | Silver RavenWolf |
| ISBN | 1567187196 |
Witches' hats and harvest moon
Ghosts that dance to haunted tune
Apples, goodies, food galore
Halloween has this and more! Just where did the autumn gaiety begin? Let Silver RavenWolf guide you through the cobwebby corners of time to uncover the history behind Halloween. Honor the spirit...
After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England
| Author | Leanda de Lisle |
| ISBN | 0345450469 |
# Runner Up, Saltire First Book of the Year Award
A brilliant history of the succession of James I of England, and the shifting power and lethal politics that brought him to the throne.In the dawn of the 17th-century when Mary Queen of Scots was dead and Elizabeth I grown old, the eyes of the English...
| Author | Elinor W. Gadon |
| ISBN | 0062503545 |
A richly illustrated testament to the reemergence of the Goddess in the art and in the lives of contemporary women and men. In this beautifully illustrated and far-reaching history. Elinor Gadon vividly weaves words and images to demonstrate the powerful connections between ancient and contemporary...
| Author | Anne Baring |
| ISBN | 0140192921 |
A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when,...
| Author | Laurie Cabot |
| ISBN | 0385316496 |
Create the life you seek. . . discover a pathway to the powers within. All women possess the primal courage and strength of the Witch. In this breakthrough, life-altering new book, Laurie Cabot brings more than forty years of experience as a spiritual counselor and practicing Witch to cultivate and...
My main problem with this book, and most books about Celtic spirituality in general, is that it's all on speculation. Very little is known about how the Celts practiced their religion, and it varied between regions and tribes. Modern people love to try and lump things into catagories, and so to them,...
| Author | Amber K |
| ISBN | 0738700797 |
Think back to prehistoric times.... the winters- not unlike ours- are cold and unforgiving (theirs were worse of course)... people had spend the entire spring/ summer and fall hunting/ gathering and storing food. The days around February are starting to get a little longer and people are getting tired...
| Author | Karl Kerényi |
| ISBN | 0500270481 |
After a brief introduction, the complex genealogies of the gods lead him from the begettings of the Titans and from Aphrodite under all her titles and aspects, to Apollo, Hermes and the reign of Zeus, touching upon the Affairs of Pan, nymphs, satyrs, cosmogonies and the birth of mankind, until he reaches...
| Author | Andy Adams |
| ISBN | 0618083480 |
A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written.
In the years following the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Andy Adams left his home in the San Antonio Valley and took to the range....
| Author | Stephen L. Harris |
| ISBN | 0073535672 |
Classical Mythology: Images and Insights grew out of the authors' many years of teaching Greek and Roman myth to undergraduates at California State University, Sacramento. Unique among textbooks on this topic, our book approaches the study of myth through complete works of Greco-Roman literature,...
| Author | Edain McCoy |
| ISBN | 1567186726 |
Now you can forget any preconceptions you might have about what it means to be a woman, and unleash your inner warrior as you embrace a timeless vision of the divine: strong, courageous, feminine. Then learn to craft your own spiritual practice centered firmly in the Celtic mystical tradition that honors...
| Author | Simon Hornblower |
| ISBN | 0198606419 |
For almost half a century, the Oxford Classical Dictionary has been the unrivaled one-volume reference work on the Greco-Roman world. Whether one is interested in literature or art, philosophy or law, mythology or science, intimate details of daily life or broad cultural and historical trends,...
| Author | Margaret Alice Murray |
| ISBN | 1595479813 |
This book is intended for the general reader as well as for the student of anthropology. In this volume I have followed one line only of anthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous European cult and the interaction between it and the exotic religion which finally overwhelmed it. I have traced...
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Bollingen)
| Author | Erich Neumann |
| ISBN | 0691097429 |
Neumann examines how the Feminine has been experienced and expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time. Appearing as goddess and demon, gate and pillar, garden and tree, hovering sky and containing vessel, the Feminine is seen as an essential factor in the dialectical relation of individual...
| Author | Peter Gaunt |
| ISBN | 0814731643 |
The English Civil War, fought between 1642 and 1646, occurred during one of the most turbulent but important periods in British history.
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) was the leading political figure of this period. A religious visionary and moral reformer, Cromwell believed that the Lord had...
The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
| Author | Leanda de Lisle |
| ISBN | 0701185864 |
WINNER HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN 2018
From the New York Times Bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the critically acclaimed story of Charles I, his warrior queen, Britain's civil wars and the trial for his life.
Barely forty years after...
Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis
| Author | Steven T. Katz |
| ISBN | 0195200276 |
Mystical and religious experience are subjects which are constantly under investigation by both the religiously sensitive and, in a more general way, by those interested in the phenomenon. This comprehensive study by a group of distinguished American and British scholars sympathetically and...
James I: Scotland's King of England
Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England’s first Stuart. Yet, as this new biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and minimise the long-term consequences of his reign has gone too far.
In spite of genuine idealism...
Kingdom: Tiber City Blues
Kingdom: Tiber City Blues
In a secret laboratory hidden under the desert, a covert bioengineering project—codename “Exodus”—has discovered the gene responsible for the human soul. Somewhere in the neon sprawl outside the nation’s collapsing economic core, a group of renegade...
Supernatural Beings From Slovenian Myth and Folktales
Focusing on Slovenian mythology, the book contains a review of Slovenian mythological, historical, and narrative material. Over 150 supernatural beings are presented, both lexically and according to the role that they have in Slovenian folklore. They are classified by type, characteristic features,...
Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend
| Author | Mike Dixon-Kennedy |
| ISBN | 1576070638 |
There are few stories more stirring than those of ancient Russia. Russian and other Slavic beliefs weave a rich tapestry in which real-world elements coexist with those from fantasy, such as dragons, monsters, and shape-changing wolves. Though Russia adopted Christianity as the state religion...
| Author | Karl Kerényi |
| ISBN | 0882142240 |
Karl Kerenyi presents here a beautiful, authoritative study of the great god Hermes whom the Greeks revered as Guides of Souls. Chapters on Hermes and Night, Hermes and Eros, and Hermes and the goddesses illuminate the complex role of Hermes in classical mythology, while also providing an archetypal...
The heroes of Greek mythology - Achilles, Orpheus, Herakles, Oedipus and others - preoccupied the minds of the ancient Greeks no less than the gods themselves. This study uses original sources, archaeological findings and psychological insight to provide an account of the lives of these mythical...
Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life
| Author | Karl Kerényi |
| ISBN | 0691029156 |
No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete expression of indestructible life, the essence...
