Recommended Reading

[Luke_Ironside]

Re: Recommended Reading

I would personally recommend "A Book of Pagan Rituals" by Herman Slater. It's a little old fashioned, but overall is a great pagan primer and begins with a very informative introduction to paganism. One down side is that it tends to focus mainly on Wiccan practice rather than on paganism in general, but overall it is a great read.

[habbalah]

Re: Recommended Reading

Hmmmm...it's funny. I was going to say that my list doesn't end there, but I just realized as I looked through my books that all of them on paganism in any way have some connection to spellwork and witchcraft. I could recommend a lot of books for that, but none that haven't already been mentioned for paganism in general.

No, please do recommend them anyway! Even if I don't find them fitting for my personal needs, someone else might be able to use them!

[Ramses II]

Re: Recommended Reading

I've been looking around for a thread devoted to recommending good Pagan books, but I can't seem to find them.

So, could you recommend some books for me here? Any path will do--I'm not looking for any one thing, but to expand my knowledge. Thank you very much!

Aztec/MesoAmerican:
-Religions of Mesoamerica by David Carrasco.
-Popol Vuh translated by Allen J. Christiansen.
-The Codex Borgia translated Gisele Diaz and Alan Rodgers.
-The Madrid Codex edited Gabrielle Vail and Anthony F. Aveni.
-Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions: That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629 by Hernando Ruiz de Alarcon.
-Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God: Tezcatlipoca, "Lord of the Smoking Mirror" by Guilhem Olivier and Michel Besson.
-The Myth of Quetzalcoatl by Enrique Florescano.
-City of Sacrifice by David Carrasco.
-An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl by Frances Karttunen.
-The Essential Codex Mendoza by Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt.
- History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca by John Bierhorst.
-An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya by Mary Ellen Miller and Karl A. Taube.
-Book of the Gods and Rites and the Ancient Calendar by F. D. Duran.
-An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl by Michel Launey by Christopher Mackay.

Egyptian:
-Seth, God of Confusion: A study of his role in Egyptian Mythology and Religion by H Te Velde and Mrs. G. E. van Baaren-Pape.
-Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt by Geraldine Pinch.
-The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day by Eva Von Dassow and Raymond Faulkner.
-The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts by R. O. Faulkner.
-The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (v. 1-3) by R.O. Faulkner.
-Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs by James P. Allen.
-Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many by Erik Hornung and John Baines.
-Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice by Byron E. Shafer, John R. Baines, David Silverman, and Leonard H. Lesko.
-Eternal Egypt: Ancient Rituals for the Modern World by Richard J. Reidy.
-Legends of the Gods the Egyptian Texts by E. A. Wallis Budge.
-The Book of the Dead by E. A. Wallis Budge.
-Egyptian Magic by E. A. Wallis Budge.
-Ancient Egyptian Divination and Magic by Eleanor L. Harris.
-An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary by E. A. Wallis Budge.
-Anubis, Upwawet, and other Deities: Personal Worship and official religion in ancient Egypt by the Egyptian Museum Cairo.