MASTER READING LIST
INDO-EUROPEAN PAGANISM
The ultimate reading list to truly understand your heritage, culture & spirituality.
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GENERAL MUST-READS
DEEP ANCESTORS
CEISIWR SERITH
The HORSE, THE WHEEL AND LANGUAGE
DAVID W. ANTHONY
How to kill a dragon
CALVERT WATKINS
Indo-European poetry & myth
MARTIN L. WEST
Comparative mythology
JAAN PUHVEL
Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans
THOMAS GAMKRELIDZE & VJACESLAV IVANOV
The Indo-European Household
EDWARD HEARN
ON FAIRY-STORIES
J.R.R TOLKIEN
The ancient city
FUSTEL DE COULANGES & DENNIS BOUVARD
Flamen-Brahman
GEORGES DUMÉZIL
MITRA-VARUNA
GEORGES DUMÉZIL
Myth, Cosmos, and Society
BRUCE LINCOLN
Death, War, and Sacrifice
BRUCE LINCOLN
The Indo-European Homeland from Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives
DAVID ANTHONY & DON RINGE
WEREWOLVES, WARRIORS & WINTER SACRIFICES
ANDERS KALIFF & TERJE OESTIGAARD
Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult
ROGER WOODARD
Indo-European Fire Rituals: Cattle and Cultivation, Cremation and Cosmogony
ANDERS KALIFF & TERJE OESTIGAARD
Rites and symbols of initiation
MIRCEA ELIADE
Indo-European interfaces – Integrating linguistics, mythology and archaeology
Jenny Larsson, Thomas Olander & Anders Richardt Jørgensen
THE GIFT
MARCEL MAUSS
THE SACRED & THE PROFANE
MIRCEA ELIADE
In Search of the Indo-Europeans
J.P. MALLORY
PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN
Deep Ancestors
CEISIWR SERITH
A Reader in Comparative Indo-European Religion
RANKO MATASOVIC
(https://mudrac.ffzg.hr/~rmatasov/PIE%20Religion.pdf )
The New Comparative Mythology
C. SCOTT LITTLETON
The WAR OF THE GODS
JARICH G. OOSTEN
CEISIWR SERITH
LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS GRAINS
CALVERT WATKINS
On the creation of domestic animals in Proto-Indo-European mythology
PAOLA RAFFETTA
THE OXFORD INTRODUCTION TO PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN AND THE PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN WORLD
J.P MALLORY & D.Q. ADAMS
VEDIC
RIG VEDA, YAJUR VEDA, SAMA VEDA, ATHARVA VEDA
primary sources
Vedic Mythology
ALFRED HILLEBRANDT
The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads
KEITH ARTHUR BERRIEDALE
The Rigveda. The Earliest Religioius Poetry of India
STEPHANIE JAMISON & JOEL BRERETON
The Texts of the White Yajurveda or Vājasaneyā-Saṃhita.
RALPH GRIFFITH
INDO-EUROPEAN SACRED SPACE VEDIC AND ROMAN CULT
ROGER WOODARD
The Vedic Age
R.C. MAJUMDAR
Vedic Mythology
ARTHUR ANTHONY MACDONNELL
The Vedic Experience: Mantramanjari
RAIMUNDO PANIKKAR
A VEDIC READER FOR STUDENTS
A.A. MACDONELL
VEDIC LITERATURE
JAN GONDA
THE RELIGION OF THE VEDA
MAURICE BLOOMFIELD
Śrauta Sūtras
primary source
Gṛhya Sūtras
primary source
SATAPATHA BRAHMANA (5 FIRST BOOKS)
primary source
HELLENIC
THE ROAD TO ELEUSIS – UNVEILING THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERIES
GORDON WASSON
THE HOMERIC HYMNS
HOMER
THE ILIAD & ODYSSEY
HOMER
THEOGONY
HESIOD
Prometheus bound
AESCHYLUS
Description of Greece
PAUSANIAS
Hellenic Household Worship
CHRISTOS PANDION PANOPOULOS
Apollodorus. Gods and Heroes of the Greeks
tr. MICHAEL SIMPSON
Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation
STEPHEN TRZASKOMA, R. SCOTT SMITH & STEPHEN BRUNET
The Greek Myths (2 vol.)
ROBERT GRAVES
Greek Religion
WALTER BURKERT
On Greek Religion
ROBERT PARKER
The Cult of Pan in Ancient Europe
PHILIPPE BORGEAUD
A COMPANION TO GREEK RELIGION
ed. DANIEL OGDEN
BEYOND THE POLIS – RITUALS, RITES & CULTS IN EARLY AND ARCHAIC GREECE
ed. IRENE S. LEMOS & ATHENA TSINGARIDA
CULTS AND RITES IN ANCIENT GREECE
MICHAEL H. JAMESON
HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY RELIGION IN ANTIQUITY
ed. JOHN BODEL & SAUL M. OLYAN
DIVINE MANIA – ALTERATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN ANCIENT GREECE
YULIA USTINOVA
SINGING FOR THE GODS – PERFORMANCES OF MYTH AND RITUAL IN ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREECE
BARBARA KOWALZIG
INDUSTRIAL RELIGION – THE SAUCER PYRES OF THE ATHENIAN AGORA
SUSAN I. ROTROFF
SANCTUARIES AND THE SACRED IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD
JOHN PEDLEY
GREEK HERO CULTS AND IDEAS OF IMMORTALITY
LEWIS RICHARD FARNELL
OATHS AND SWEARING IN ANCIENT GREECE
ALAN H. SOMMERSTEIN & ISABELLE C. TORRANCE
MYTHOLOGY: TIMELESS TALES OF GODS AND HEROES
EDITH HAMILTON
The Sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults in the archaic to the early hellenistic periods
GUNNEL EKROTH
ROMAN
De Agri Cultura
CATO THE ELDER
On the Laws
CICERO
On the nature of the gods
CICERO
Ab Urbe Condita
LIVY
Natural history
PLINY THE ELDER
On the Oracles of the Pythia at Delphi
PLUTARCH
Roman Questions
PLUTARCH
De Re Rustica
VARRO
FASTI
OVID
Saturnalia
MACROBIUS
Servius' Commentary on Book Four of Virgil's Aeneid
SERVIUS
An Introduction to Roman Religion
JOHN SCHEID
The Romans and their Gods in the Age of Augustus
R.M. OGILVIE
Festivals and Ceremonies of the Roman Republic
H.H. SCULLARD
Archaic Roman Religion
GEORGES DUMÉZIL
Roman Religion
ANDO CLIFFORD
The Bronze Tablets of Iguvium
JAMES WILSON POULTNEY
Language and Ritual in Sabellic Italy: The Ritual Complex of the Third and Fourth Tabulae Iguvinae
MICHAEL WEISS
ROMAN REPUBLICAN AUGURY: FREEDOM AND CONTROL
LINDSAY G. DRIEDIGER-MURPHY
MEMORABLE DEEDS AND SAYINGS
VALERIUS MAXIMUS
NATURAL QUESTIONS
SENECA
GERMANIC / NORSE
Beowulf
SEAMUS HEANEY (tr)
THE POETIC EDDA
(tr.) Larrington
THE MAIDEN WITH THE MEAD
MARIA KVILHAUG
THE SEED OF YGGDRASILL
MARIA KVILHAUG
GERMANIA
TACITUS
Gods of the Ancient Northmen
GEORGES DUMÉZIL
Old Norse Religion in Long-Term Perspectives
ANDERS ANDRÉN & KRISTINA JENNBERT
The One-eyed God – Odin and the (Indo-)Germanic Männerbünde
KRIS KERSHAW
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
H.R. ELLIS DAVIDSON
Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe
H.R. ELLIS DAVIDSON
Nordic Religions in the Viking Age
THOMAS DUBOIS
Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, Prophecy, and Lordship in the European Warband from La Tène to the Viking Age
MICHAEL ENRIGHT
Germanic Sacrifice: An Analytical Study Using Linguistic, Archaeological and Literary Data
MARY SUSAN NEFF
Rites and Religions of the Anglo-Saxons
GALE OWEN
Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons
PHILIP SHAW
Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia
E.O.G. TURVILLE-PETRE
When the Norns have spoken
ANTHONY WINTERBOURNE
The Saga of the Volsungs & The Vinland Sagas
Ancient Germanic Warriors
MICHAEL P. SPEIDEL
SITE: https://www.englatheod.org
Great articles on Anglo-Saxon spirituality
The Lost Gods of England
BRIAN BRANSTON
Pagan Britain
RONALD HUTTON
The Religion of the Anglo-Saxons
DAVID WILSON
The Germanic People: Their origin, expansion & culture
FRANCIS OWEN
RITES & RELIGIONS OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS
GALE R. OWEN
CELTIC
THE CONQUEST OF GAUL
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR
Caesar's Druids: Story of an Ancient Priesthood
MIRANDA GREEN
THE CELTIC WORLD
MIRANDA GREEN
DICTIONARY OF CELTIC MYTH & LEGEND
MIRANDA GREEN
THE GODS OF THE CELTS
MIRANDA GREEN
A Celtic Miscellany
KENNETH HURLSTONE JACKSON
The Celtic Heroic Age
JOHN CAREY & JOHN KOCH
Celtic Mythology
PROINSIAS MACCANA
Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales
ALWYN REES & BRINLEY REES
Gods and Heroes of the Celts
MARIE-LOUISE SJÖSTEDT
Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland
LADY (ISABELLA AUGUSTA) GREGORY
EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE PAGAN CELTS
ANNE ROSS
The Cattle-Raid of Fráech
MYTH
THE ANCIENT CELTS
BARRY CUNLIFFE
PAGAN CELTIC BRITAIN
ANNE ROSS
THE MABINOGION
EARLIEST WELSH PROSE STORIES
Pytheas' voyage journals
Pytheas’ work itself – On the ocean – was lost already in Antiquity, but it’s heavily referred to and quoted in the works of e.g. Timaeus, Eratosthenes, Pliny the Elder (Natural History), Diodorus Siculus (Bibliotheca Historica), Strabo (Geography), and Polybius (book 34 of his The Histories) et al.
An introduction to Early Irish Literature
MUIREANN NI BHROLCHAIN
SLAVIC PAGANISM
Slavic traditions & mythology
STEFAN CVETKOVIC. The book explores the pre-Christian Slavic customs, symbols and myths from the deepest parts of prehistory up to our contemporary folklore.
Slavic traditions & mythology Vol. 2
STEFAN CVETKOVIC. The book explores the pre-Christian Slavic customs, symbols and myths from the deepest parts of prehistory up to our contemporary folklore.
Hamingja Podcast ep 13
On Slacic paganism with Stefan Cvetkovic (@TheWorldTree). Listen to the podcast or watch on YouTube!
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THE SACRED DRINK
ESSAY: http://www.musaios.com/ash.htm
DARL J. DUMONT
On the ash tree in Indo-European spirituality, and it raining honeydew down on the world.
HAMINGJA PODCAST EP 12
The Sacred Drink
The Well and the Tree
PAUL BAUSCHATZ
Lady With a Mead Cup
MICHAEL J. ENRIGHT
Baile in Scáil (The Phantom’s Frenzy)
https://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/phantom.html
The Well of Nechtan and “La Gloire Lumineuse. In Larson, Gerald James (ed.). Myth in Indo-European Antiquity
PATRICK FORD
The Greek Myths
ROBERT GRAVES (look up anything involving ambrosia and nekter, as well as the stories around the hiding of Zeus when he was a baby)
Ploughing the Clouds. The Search for Irish Soma.
PETER LAMBORN WILSON
Soma: Divine mushroom of immortality
GORDON WASSON
KYKEON – STUDIES IN HONOUR OF H.S. VERSNEL
ed. HORSTMANSHOFF, SINGOR & VAN STRATEN
PERSIAN (& ZOROASTRIAN)
The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees
JIVANJI JAMSHEDJI MODI
THE AVESTA
primary source
The Pre-Zoroastrian Religion of the Medes and Persians
MARY BOYCE
An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion: Readings from the Avesta and Achaemenid Inscriptions
WILLIAM MALENDRA
The Daiva-Inscription of Xerxes
ROLAND KENT
DAIVA
CLARISSE HERRENSCHMIDT
(https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/daiva-old-iranian-noun )
DOCUMENTARIES & VIDEOS
This film records a 12 day ritual performed by Brahmins in April 1975. Possibly the last authentic performance of the Agnicayana, a Vedic ritual of sacrifice.
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STORIES, FOLKTALES, NOVELS & POETRY
Folktales in Indo-European tradition
MAXWELL EDWARD GRAMAN
PIRANESI
SUSANNA CLARKE
THE TRADITION OF HOUSEHOLD SPIRITS. ANCESTRAL LORE AND PRACTICES
CLAUDE LECOUTEUX
TWO SAGAS OF MYTHICAL HEROES
JACKSON CRAWFORD
THE LITTLE ADVENTURERS: THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN APPLE
ROMANE ARBOGAST & STEFAN CVETKOVIC
LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY
JRR TOLKIEN
THE WAY OF WYRD
BRIAN BATES
THE LITTLE ADVEN