References for Ancient Magic, Culture, and Religion

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• A contribution to the Study of Palaeologan Magic by Richard Greenfield (38 pages)

• A Study in Magic and Religion by J.G. Frazer (275 pages)

• [ recommended ] The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by Sir James George Frazer (547 pages)

• Myth, Ritual, and Religion by Andrew Lang (256 pages)

• Myths and Myth Makers Old Tales and Superstitions by John Fiske (179 pages)

• History of Western Magick (25 pages)

• The Zodiac (35 pages)

• The Emerald Tablet of Hermes (22 pages)

• An Introduction to Seals (22 pages)

• Sanskrit Dictionary (152 pages)

• Animism (77 pages)

• An A-Z of Metaphysical Subjects (15 pages)

• Myth, Ritual, and Religion by Andrew Lang (256 pages)

• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (101 pages) Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God."

• [ recommended ] Ancient Man - The Beginning of Civilizations by Van Loon (62 pages) As for art and the sciences, these did not interest them very much. They regarded with suspicion a man who could play the lute or who could write a poem about Spring and only thought him little better than the clever fellow who could walk the tightrope or who had trained his poodle dog to stand on its hind legs. They left such things to the Greeks and to the Orientals, both of whom they despised, while they themselves spent their days and nights keeping order among the thousand and one nations of their vast empire.

• Flood Stories from around the World (27 pages)

• History of Medicine Days (341 pages)

• Stone Age Divas & the Origins of Civilizations (24 pages)

• The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch (310 pages)

• Allaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp by John Payne (120 pages)

• Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch (286 pages) For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known. The stories are divided into three sections: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (first published in 1855); The Age of Chivalry (1858), which contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, and The Knights of English History; and Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages (1863). For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from Mallet's Northern Antiquities. He provides lively versions of the myths of Zeus and Hera, Venus and Adonis, Daphne and Apollo, and their cohorts on Mount Olympus; the love story of Pygmalion and Galatea; the legends of the Trojan War and the epic wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas; the joys of Valhalla and the furies of Thor; and the tales of Beowulf and Robin Hood. The tales are eminently readable. As Bulfinch wrote, "Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. . . . Our book is an attempt to solve this problem, by telling the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement."

• The Assyrians and their Neighbors by W.A. Wigram (97 pages)

• The Monks of Kublai Khan translated by E.A. Wallis Budge (96 pages)

• The Non-Christian Cross by John Parsons (86 pages)

• Interpretationes of Ancient Herbs (2 pages)

• The Book of Ancient Formulas by Lewis de Claremont (62 pages)

• The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould (85 pages) Historical and Current

• Deep Listening - Revealing the Pulse Persian Medicine (6 pages)

• Finnish Magic and the Old Gods (16 pages)

• This is the Story of Moses (5 pages)

• The revelation of Adam`s origin as told to his son Seth (5 pages)

• The Formation and Structure of the Aztec Universe (2 pages)

• The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters (20 pages) Written by imperial command in the eighth century, The Kojiki is the oldest surviving Japanese book. This compendium of early Japanese life provides a panorama of Japan during its formation.

• Dictionary of Native American Mythology by S.D.Gill, I.F.Sullivan (411 pages)

• The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind (332 pages) Is the Sphinx of prehistoric origin? Why was it built? In this provocative, rigorously argued report, revisionist Egyptologists Hancock (The Fingerprints of the Gods) and Bauval (The Orion Mystery) join forces to answer these questions and more as they examine the Sphinx and its relation to the other monuments of the Giza plateau. Working from the premise that the Giza complex encodes a message, they begin with recently discovered geological evidence indicating that the deep erosion patterns on the flanks of the Sphinx were caused by 1000 years of heavy rain. Such conditions last existed in Egypt at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000-9,000 B.C., meaning that the Sphinx may be more than 12,000 years old (not the generally accepted 4500 years). The authors go on to suggest, using computer simulations of the sky, that the pyramids, representing the three stars of Orion's Belt, along with associated causeways and alignments, constitute a record in stone of the celestial array at the vernal equinox in 10,500 B.C. This moment, they contend, represents Zep Tepi, the "First Time," often referred to in the hieroglyphic record. They show how the initiation rituals of the Egyptian pharaohs replicate on Earth the sun's journey through the stars in this remote era, and they suggest that the "Hall of Records" of a lost civilization may be located by treating the Giza Plateau as a template of these same ancient skies. These daring, well-argued theories will raise the hackles of orthodox Egyptologists?but that doesn't mean they're wrong.

• Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock (490 pages) The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. An exciting journey of discovery that spans continents and centuries, seeking evidence of humanity's first great civilization.

• Byzantine Magic (21.5 Mb, 220 pages)

• Maori Religion & Mythology (124 pages)

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