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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)