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ᚦ Norse · 27 texts
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)
Beowulf
Anon. (Old English), tr. Francis B. Gummere (1910)
Egil's Saga
Rev. W.C. Green (1893)
Grettis Saga
Eiríkr Magnússon & William Morris (1869)
Hávamál
Henry Adams Bellows, 1936
Heimskringla
Snorri Sturluson, tr. Samuel Laing (1844)
Legends of the Rhine
Lewis Spence (1915)
Old Norse Poems
Lee M. Hollander (1936)
Teutonic Myth and Legend
The Children of Odin
The Danish History, Books I-IX
Saxo Grammaticus, tr. Oliver Elton (1905)
The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology
Annie and Eliza Keary (1871 revised ed.)
The Laxdaela Saga
tr. Muriel A. C. Press (1899)
The Nibelungenlied
Anon. (Middle High German), tr. Daniel B. Shumway (1909)
The Norse Discovery of America
A.M. Reeves, N.L. Beamish & R.B. Anderson (1906)
The Poetic Edda
The Prose Edda
The Runes
The Story of Burnt Njal
tr. Sir George Webbe Dasent (1861)
The Story of Gisli the Outlaw
tr. George Webbe Dasent (1866)
The Story of Howard the Halt, The Story of the Banded Men, The Story of Hen Thorir
tr. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1891)
The Story of the Ere-Dwellers (Eyrbyggja Saga), with the Story of the Heath-Slayings
tr. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1892)
The Viking Age, Volume 1 of 2
Paul B. Du Chaillu (1889)
The Viking Age, Volume 2 of 2
Paul B. Du Chaillu (1889)
The Völsunga Saga
Víga-Glúms Saga
Sir Edmund Head (1866)
Völuspá
Henry Adams Bellows, 1936
☙ Hellenic · 51 texts
Apollonius of Tyana
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
Thomas Bulfinch (1855)
Cupid and Psyche
Description of Greece, Vol. I
Pausanias, tr. Arthur Richard Shilleto
Description of Greece, Vol. II
Pausanias, tr. Arthur Richard Shilleto
Dionysiaca, Vol. I
Nonnus, tr. W.H.D. Rouse (1940)
Dionysiaca, Vol. II
Nonnus, tr. W.H.D. Rouse (1940)
Dionysiaca, Vol. III
Nonnus, tr. W.H.D. Rouse (1940)
Fasti
Ovid, ed. Thomas Keightley (Latin text)
Golden Verses of Pythagoras
Greek Popular Religion
Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Homeric Hymns
Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914
Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life
tr. Thomas Taylor (1818)
Metamorphoses
Ovid, tr. Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden, et al. (1717)
Myths of Greece and Rome
H. A. Guerber (1893)
Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
Pagan Regeneration
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
Roman and Greek Questions
Sibylline Oracles
Milton S. Terry, 1899
The Aeneid
Virgil, tr. John Dryden
The Argonautica
Apollonius Rhodius, tr. R.C. Seaton (1912)
The Divine Pymander
The Dramas of Aeschylus
Aeschylus, tr. E.D.A. Morshead & R. Potter
The Dramas of Euripides
Euripides, tr. E.P. Coleridge, et al.
The Dramas of Sophocles
Sophocles, tr. R.C. Jebb, F. Storr, et al.
The Eclogues
Virgil, tr. J.B. Greenough
The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries
The Extant Odes of Pindar
Pindar, tr. Ernest Myers (1874)
The Geography of Strabo, Vol. I
Strabo, tr. H.C. Hamilton & W. Falconer
The Geography of Strabo, Vol. II
Strabo, tr. H.C. Hamilton & W. Falconer
The Geography of Strabo, Vol. III
Strabo, tr. H.C. Hamilton & W. Falconer
The Georgics
Virgil, tr. J.B. Greenough
The Golden Ass
The History of Herodotus, Volume 1
tr. G. C. Macaulay (1890)
The History of Herodotus, Volume 2
tr. G. C. Macaulay (1890)
The Iliad
Homer, tr. Samuel Butler (1898)
The Mysteries of Mithra
The Odyssey
Homer, tr. Samuel Butler (1900)
The Orphic Hymns
The Religion of Numa
The Sibylline Oracles
The Syrian Goddess
Theogony
Theosophical Essays
Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. I
Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. II
Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol. III
Two Orations of the Emperor Julian
Works and Days
𓂀 Kemetic · 22 texts
Ancient Egyptian Legends
Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
Egyptian Magic
Egyptian Myth and Legend
Donald A. Mackenzie (1907/1913)
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri: First Series, IVth to XIIth Dynasty
tr. W. M. Flinders Petrie (1895)
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri: Second Series, XVIIIth to XIXth Dynasty
tr. W. M. Flinders Petrie (1895)
Legends of the Gods
Maxims of Ptahhotep
Battiscombe Gunn, 1906
The Book of Am-Tuat
The Book of Gates
The Book of the Dead
The Burden of Isis
The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden
The Dwellers on the Nile: Chapters on the Life, History, Religion, and Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
E. A. Wallis Budge (1885)
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
E.A. Wallis Budge, 1895
The Egyptian Heaven and Hell
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
E. A. Wallis Budge (1914)
The Liturgy of Funerary Offerings
The Pyramid Texts
The Wisdom of the Egyptians
Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism and Egyptian Monotheism
❋ Celtic · 10 texts
Carmina Gadelica
Alexander Carmichael, 1900
Cuchulain of Muirthemne
arr. Lady Gregory (1902)
Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster
tr./retold Eleanor Hull (1910)
Gods and Fighting Men
tr./arr. Lady Gregory, intro. W. B. Yeats (1904)
Old Celtic Romances
tr. P. W. Joyce (1879)
The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge
tr. Joseph Dunn (1914)
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
W. Y. Evans-Wentz (1911)
The Mabinogion
Lady Charlotte Guest, 1877
The Mythology of the British Islands (Celtic Myth and Legend)
Charles Squire (1905)
The Religion of the Ancient Celts
J. A. MacCulloch (1911)
🔥 Zoroastrian · 7 texts
Shayest Ne-Shayest (Proper and Improper)
tr. E. W. West, Sacred Books of the East vol. 5 (1880)
The Book of Arda Viraf
tr. Martin Haug and E. W. West (1872)
The Bundahishn (Zoroastrian Creation)
tr. E. W. West, Sacred Books of the East vol. 5 (1880/1897)
The Vendidad
tr. James Darmesteter, Sacred Books of the East vol. 4 (American Edition, 1898)
The Visperad
tr. L. H. Mills, Sacred Books of the East vol. 31 (American Edition, 1898)
The Yashts
tr. James Darmesteter, Sacred Books of the East vol. 23 (American Edition, 1898)
The Yasna (Sacred Liturgy and Gathas)
tr. L. H. Mills, Sacred Books of the East vol. 31 (American Edition, 1898); Gatha sections after Bartholomae (1905) via Moulton (1913)