The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Volume 1
10 best books like The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Volume 1 (James George Frazer): Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit, Selected Letters, The Pagan Book of Halloween: A Complete Guide to the Magick, Incantations, Recipes, Spells, and Lore, Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural, The Forest in Folklore and Mythology, Liber Aleph Vel CXI: The Book of Wisdom or Folly, in the Form an Epistle of 666, the Great Wild Beast to His Son 777, Being the Equinox, Volume III Number VI, In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth, Tales of Troy and Greece, Myths of Greece and Rome
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
| Author | Margaret Mead |
| ISBN | 0060934956 |
First published in 1935, Sex & Temperament is a fascinating and brilliant anthropological study of the intimate lives of three New Guinea tribes from infancy to adulthood. Focusing on the gentle, mountain-dwelling Arapesh, the fierce, cannibalistic Mundugumor, and the graceful headhunters...
The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit
| Author | Julius Evola |
| ISBN | 0892815736 |
In this important study of the meaning of the Grail, one of Europe's greatest esoteric philosophers discloses the pre-Christian and initiatic sources of this symbolic motif that is so central to Western mythology and culture. He demonstrates how the main features of the legend are from an older tradition...
| Author | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| ISBN | 0140444580 |
The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life, guided by profound political beliefs that illuminated his correspondence with both close friends and powerful aristocrats. A chronicle of a crumbling civilization...
The Pagan Book of Halloween: A Complete Guide to the Magick, Incantations, Recipes, Spells, and Lore
| Author | Gerina Dunwich |
| ISBN | 0140196161 |
For Pagans and witches, Halloween, or Samhain, is the most important and sacred holiday--a day to honor the dead and to celebrate the birth of a new year. The number of Wicca practitioners is rapidly growing--especially among young women--and popular media has embraced Paganism on television, in...
Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural
| Author | Pamela A. Moro |
| ISBN | 0073405213 |
This comparative reader takes an anthropological approach to the study of religious beliefs, both strange and familiar. The engaging articles on all key issues related to the anthropology of religion grab the attention of students, while giving them an excellent foundation in contemporary ideas...
The Forest in Folklore and Mythology
| Author | Alexander Porteous |
| ISBN | 0486420108 |
"If you have a feeling for the mystery and enchantment of the woods, you will want to own this book." — Outlook.
Assembled from an enormous range of sources, this fascinating book is a mind-expanding compendium of facts, folklore, superstitions, myths, and anecdotes about trees and the forest....
| Author | Aleister Crowley |
| ISBN | 0877287295 |
Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, was a British occultist, writer, mountaineer, philosopher, poet, and mystic. He was an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the A∴A∴, and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), and is best known today for...
| Author | Tikva Frymer-Kensky |
| ISBN | 0029108004 |
Provides an excellent overview of goddess worship from Sumerian times to the Hellenistic period, with particular emphasis upon understanding mythological narratives, polytheism in Ancient Israel, the status of women in the ancient Near East, and debunking certain myths about temple prostitution...
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN | 1853261726 |
Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons and the Wooden Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told.
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| Author | Thomas Bulfinch |
| ISBN | 0140056432 |
Orpheus leading his beloved Eurydice back to life … Ulysses battling to resist the mesmerising Sirens’ song … The tragedy of the vengeful Medea …
The timeless stories of the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome are charged with passion and romance, magic and murder. Each one is brought...
Encyclopedia of World Mythology
| Author | Arthur Cotterell |
| ISBN | 0755000137 |
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The Nature of Greek Myths
| Author | Geoffrey S. Kirk |
| ISBN | 0140135367 |
Professor Kirk has examined these universal theories in detail. They are all, he admits, illuminating, but none is adequate by itself, because these ' traditional tales ' are of such variety that no single theory that can embrace them all. His general analysis of the nature of myth is followed by a splendid...
| Author | Doug Moench |
| ISBN | 1563892545 |
Good: A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels.Some of our books...
| Author | Jean-Pierre Vernant |
| ISBN | 0942299191 |
Jean Pierre-Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, published here as a single volume, the authors present a disturbing and decidedly non-classical...
The Complete Dictionary of Symbols
| Author | Jack Tresidder |
| ISBN | 0811847675 |
The Complete Dictionary of Symbols is an engaging and accessible guide to more than 2,000 major themes, figures, and symbols that are commonly found in myth, art, and literature. Drawing on classical mythologies, Biblical themes, and traditional symbols from cultures worldwide, this user-friendly,...
A History of Women in the West. Vol 1. From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints
In the words of the general editors, A History of Women seeks "to understand women's place in society, their condition, the roles they played and the powers they possessed, their silence, their speech, and their deeds. It is the variety of the representations of women--as gods, Madonnas, witches,...
| Author | Jane Ellen Harrison |
| ISBN | 0691015147 |
"Harrison's Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion is a book that breathes life. It is an exciting, deeply felt intellectual quest, with a broad view of the role of religion in life, ancient and modern. Harrison is not afraid to look for relevance in archaic cult, and doesn't flinch on finding it....
The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
| Author | James Clifford |
| ISBN | 0674698436 |
The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, James Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life...
Transformations of Myth Through Time
| Author | Joseph Campbell |
| ISBN | 0060964634 |
First, I would like to make it clear that I did enjoy this book. The essays were both interesting, and informative - they gave a lot of food for thought. They were taken from a documentary (if I'm not mistaken, Mythos I and Mythos II?) shown on PBS some years ago. This book contained a good deal of artwork and...
Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays
| Author | Bronisław Malinowski |
| ISBN | 0881336572 |
Three famous Malinowski essays! Malinowski, one of the all-time great anthropologists of the world, had a talent for bringing together in single comprehension the warm reality of human living with the cool abstractions of science. His pages have become an almost indispensable link between the knowing...
Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India
| Author | Serena Nanda |
| ISBN | 0534509037 |
Tender and evocative anecdotes, but the book purveys a host of subtle inaccuracies. It paves over vast lacunae, as though they weren't, and condenses huge diversities in an attempt to appear comprehensive. That's an anthropological no-no. For one of the more striking examples of this, in the region...
Rites and Symbols of Initiation
| Author | Mircea Eliade |
| ISBN | 0882143581 |
Organizing data from cultures the world over, Eliade lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instruction, individual visions, and heroic rites of passage. The vast information, assembled so beautifully, transcends usual scholarship....
| Author | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
This collection of Levi-Strauss' essays, studies and polemic articles often has a manifesto-like tone. However, the chapters vary in style and substance. Some are more ethnographical, others (more numerous) are more theoretical and have a programmatic character. Although Levi-Strauss' analyses...
Art and Symbols of the Occult: Images of Power and Wisdom
| Author | James Wasserman |
| ISBN | 0892814152 |
A short book (mostly pictures) of occult art, interpretations of the art, and how the arts applied to both broad religious and ecumenical (Christian denominations) histories. As with many items of this ilk, we see how the past "pagan" religions were "reinterpreted" (read: stolen) and formed into...
How the World Is Made: The Story of Creation according to Sacred Geometry
| Author | John Michell |
| ISBN | 1594773246 |
Understanding the role of sacred geometry in cosmology and human affairs
• Explains how ancient societies that grasped the timeless principles of sacred geometry were able to create flourishing societies
• Illustrates the social and spiritual values in the natural progression...
