Pagan/Heathen Reading List

The following list is comprised of suggestions from various pagans/heathens who have visited this site.  If you would like to add to this list, please email the site owner with your suggestions.

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Ceremonial Magick

The Golden Dawn  by Israel Regardie
The Middle Pillar  by Israel Regardie

The Cloud upon the Sanctuary  by Karl Von Eckartshausen

Egyptian/Kemetic

Funerary
The Book of the Dead or Going Forth by Day: Ideas of the Ancient Egyptians concerning the hereafter as expressed in their own terms  trans. by George Allen

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day  trans. by Raymond Faulkner
Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead   by Normandi Ellis
The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead  trans. by R.O. Faulkner
The Pyramid Texts of Unas  by A. Piankoff
A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts  by Rami Van Der Molen
The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts  by Raymond Oliver Faulkner

History and Society
Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt   by Peter Clayton
Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs  by Alan Gardiner
The Calendars of Ancient Egypt by R.A. Parker
Ancient Lives: Daily Life in Egypt of the Pharaohs  by John Romer
Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience  by Frank M. Snowden, Jr.
Ancient Egypt: A Social History  by B.G. Trigger, B.J. Kemp, D. O'Connor, and A.B. Lloyd

Literature
Echoes of Egyptian Voices: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Poetry  by John L. Foster
Cry of the Benu Bird: An Egyptian Creation Story  by C. Shana Greger
Selections from the Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt  by Maulana Karenga
Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings: Vol. 1, The Old and Middle Kingdoms   by Miriam Lichtheim

Ancient Egyptian Literature, a Book of Readings: The Late Period   by Miriam Lichtheim
Voices from Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings   by R.B. Parkinson
Mythological Papyri by A. Piankoff
The Litany of Ra
Tutankhamen's Gift  by Robert Sabuda
The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instruction and Poetry  by William Kelly Simpson

Theology and Philosophy
A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses  by George Hart
Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and The Many   by Erik Hornung, John Baines
The Great Goddesses of Egypt  by Barbara S. Lesko
Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods  by Dimitri Meeks, Christine Favard-Meeks, and G.M. Goshgarian
Egyptian Religion  by Siegfried Morenz
The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice   by Robert Kriech Ritner
Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt  by R.T. Rundle-Clark
Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice  ed. by Byron E. Schafer
The Neteru of Kemet: An Introduction   by Tamara Siuda-Legan
Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture  by Richard H. Wilkinson
Symbol & Magic in Egyptian Art  by Richard H. Wilkinson

General History / Paganism

A History of Pagan Europe   by Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick
Juice of Life: The Symbolic and Magic Significance of Blood  by Piero Camporesi

The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft   by Ronald Hutton

Researching Paganisms   by Jenny Blain, Douglas Ezzy and Graham Harvey

Contemporary Paganism: Listening People, Speaking Earth   by Graham Harvey

The Paganism Reader   ed. by Chas Clifton and Graham Harvey

Heathenry

The Danish History   by Saxo Grammaticus

The Poetic Edda   trans. by Lee Hollander

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle  by Michael Swanton
Beowulf  trans. Seamus Heaney
Grettir's Saga  by Denton Fox, Herman Palsson
Early Kings of Norway   by Thomas Carlyle
Heimskringla : History of the Kings of Norway  by Snorri Sturluson, Lee M. Hollander (trans.)
The Edda  trans. Cottle
The Havamal

Teutonic Mythology   by Jacob Grimm

Poetic Edda   trans. by Carolyne Larrington

Edda  by Snorri Sturluson, trans. Anthony Faulkes

Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic: Ecstasy and Neo-Shamanism in North European Paganism   by Jenny Blain

Wights and Ancestors, and Understanding Wyrd  by Jenny Blain

Nordic Religions in the Viking Age   by Thomas Dubois

The Viking Way  by Neil Price

Mesopotamia

Babylonian Magic and Sorcery  by Leonard W. King, M.A.
Inanna: Lady of Largest Heart  by Betty De Shong Meador
Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth  by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer
Lilith: The Edge of Forever   by Filomena Maria Pereira

The Harps That Once: Sumerian Poetry in Translation  by Thorkild Jacobsen

The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion  by Thorkild Jacobsen

Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia  by Jeremy A. Black

A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts  by John Hayes

Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia  by Jean Bottero

Mesopotamia : Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods  by Jean Bottero

History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine "Firsts" in Recorded History  by Samuel Noah Kramer

The Sumerians : Their History, Culture, and Character  by Samuel Noah Kramer
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others  by Stephanie Dalley

Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History  by J.N. Postgate

Shamanism / Trancework

The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom: A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook   by Caitlin and John Matthews
Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit   by Tom Cowan

Shamans/Neo-Shamans: Ecstasies, Alternative Archaeologies and Contemporary Pagans   by Robert J. Wallis
The Way of the Shaman   by Michael Harner

Voodoo, Hoodoo, Santeria, and Candomble

The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble  by James Wafer

Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou  by Donald Cosentino

Sacred Possessions: Voodoo, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean    by Margarite Fernandez Olmos

Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic: A Materia Magica of African-American Conjure   by Catherine Yronwode

Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World   by William Bascom

Voodoo & Hoodoo: Their Tradition and Craft As Revealed by Actual Practitioners   by Jim Haskins

Living Santeria: Rituals and Experiences in an Afro-Cuban Religion   by Michael Atwood Mason

The Diloggun: The Orishas, Proverbs, Sacrifices, and Prohibitions of Cuban Santeria   by Ocha'Ni Lele

Women's Studies

Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women  by Sylvia Brinton Perera

Honoring Menstruation: A Time of Self-Renewal   by Lara Owen
The Yoni: Sacred Symbol of Creative Power   by Rufus Camphausen
105 Ways to Celebrate Menstruation  by Kami McBride