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Lārhūs Fyrnsida Suggested Reading List

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1

The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion

by Mircéa Eliade

3,111 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: waxflower

2

The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History

by Mircéa Eliade

1,648 members

12 reviews

4

Member: waxflower

3

The Idea of the Holy

1,623 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: waxflower

4

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

by Mary Douglas

1,207 members

9 reviews

4

Member: waxflower

5

The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Ancient Greece and Rome

by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges

728 members

10 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: waxflower

6

Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession

255 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: waxflower

7

Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice

by Catherine Bell

239 members

½ 3.5

Member: waxflower

8

Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions

by Catherine Bell

239 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: waxflower

9

A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry into Polytheism

by John Michael Greer

226 members

7 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: waxflower

10

The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices

by Claude Lecouteux

141 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: waxflower

11

Looking for the Lost Gods of England

by Kathleen Herbert

118 members

2 reviews

4

Member: waxflower

12

The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation

by James C. Russell

114 members

3.8

Member: waxflower

13

The Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind

by Claude Lecouteux

110 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: waxflower

14

The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks

by Marcel Detienne

102 members

3.8

Member: waxflower

15

The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature

by Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson

100 members

½ 4.4

Member: waxflower

16

Peace-Weavers and Shield-Maidens: Women in Early English Society

by Kathleen Herbert

95 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: waxflower

17

The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England

by Stephen Pollington

92 members

1 review

½ 4.6

Member: waxflower

18

Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices

by Claude Lecouteux

88 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: waxflower

19

Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, prophecy and lordship in the European warband from La Tene to the Viking Age

by Michael J. Enright

61 members

4.2

Member: waxflower

20

The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture

by Paul C. Bauschatz

53 members

1 review

4.1

Member: waxflower

21

A Piece of Horse Liver: Myth, Ritual and Folklore in Old Icelandic Sources

by Jon Hnefill Adalsteinsson

52 members

½ 4.6

Member: waxflower

22

The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300

by Martin Carver

47 members

½ 4.5

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23

The One-eyed God: Odin and the (Indo-) Germanic Männerbünde (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph No. 36)

by Kris Kershaw

46 members

1 review

5

Member: waxflower

24

A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism

40 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: waxflower

25

Sacred Waters: Holy Wells and Water Lore in Britain and Ireland (Paladin Books)

39 members

½ 3.6

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26

Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons (Studies in Early Medieval History)

by Philip A. Shaw

37 members

4.2

Member: waxflower

27

Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited

by Alex Sanmark

30 members

5

Member: waxflower

28

The Elder Gods: The Otherworld of Early England

by Stephen Pollington

27 members

4

Member: waxflower

29

Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult (Traditions)

by Roger D. Woodard

23 members

Member: waxflower

30

Anglo-Saxon leechcraft: An historical sketch of early English medicine : lecture memoranda, British Medical Association,

by Henry Solomon Wellcome

19 members

3

Member: waxflower

31

Roman Gods (Religions in the Graeco-roman World)

by Michael Lipka

19 members

Member: waxflower

32

The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons c.597-c.700: Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlife

by Marilyn Dunn

19 members

Member: waxflower

33

Chariot of the Sun and Other Rites and Symbols of the Northern Bronze Age (Aldine Pbs.)

by Peter Gelling

12 members

½ 3.5

Member: waxflower

34

Faith, Hope and Worship: Aspects of Religious Mentality in the Ancient World (Studies in Greek and Roman Religion)

by H.S. Versnel

12 members

Member: waxflower

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Started: waxflower
May 2025
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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