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Mythology - Astronomy Hamlet's Mill by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha Von Dechend
Highly recommended for understanding how myths were, in fact, astronomical allegories.
The authors were the first to connect up all the dots to make the case
that most of the possibly hundreds of Deluge myths were in fact metaphorical stories for teaching
about the precession of the equinoxes.
Mythology - Astronomy Star Temple of Avalon by Nicholas R Mann and Philippa Glasson
A long overdue account of how the natural landscape features of the Glastonbury area provided an astronomical impetus for the importance of Glastonbury in prehistoric times, revealing a previously missing link between the Isle of Avalon's prehistoric period and the later Celtic, early Christian and Monastic overlays that the town of Glastonbury has enjoyed.
Mythology - Astronomy Avebury Cosmos by Nicholas R Mann and Philippa Glasson
Landscape archaeology is much in fashion at present, but the sky-the one part of the prehistoric landscape which
can be reconstructed with real accuracy-is usually forgotten. Nicholas Mann's
painstaking research shows how it can be reintegrated, and how archaeology, astronomy
and anthropology can be brought together, to produce a plausible hypothesis regarding the
nature of one of the world's greatest prehistoric monuments.
Mythology - Celtic Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth by W B Yeats
Published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth,
with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies,
ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs.
Through his researches on Irish folklore, Yeats attempted to create a movement in literature that
was enriched by and rooted in a vital native tradition.
Taliesin: The Last Celtic Shaman by John Matthews
Taliesin, Chief Bard of Britain and Celtic shaman, was an historical figure who lived
in Wales during the latter half of the sixth century. Encoded within his work are the
ancestral beliefs of the Celtic and pre-Celtic peoples. In addition, his verse is established
as a direct precursor to the Arthurian legends - and Taliesin himself, shaman and shapeshifter, is said to be the direct forebear to Merlin.
The Mabinogion Tetralogy by Evangeline Walton
Casting back into Celtic mythology, the storyteller weaves tales of Prince Pwyll
and Lord Death, and the beautiful Rhiannon and the steadfast Branwen. The twelve branches of the ancient Welsh text are woven into four compelling narratives
featuring the Prince of Annwy, the Children of Lyr, the Song of Rhiannon and The Island of the
Mighty.
Mythology - Egyptian Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World by Gerald Massey
This turn of the 19th century poet and Egyptologist was way ahead of his time
when he showed how the Egyptian myths, displayed on the walls of the tombs,
not only served as astronomical teaching stories but eschatological ones as well.
He also makes a cast iron case for how the Jesus stories were developed from those about Horus.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead by E A Wallis Budge
Contains hundreds of full colour pictures of the compositions that
the Egyptians inscribed upon the walls of tombs and sarcophagi, coffins and funeral stelae,
papyri and amulets, in order to help the deceased make the journey into the realms of dead.
The Twelve Gates by John A Rush
A clinical anthropologist explains what each of the Twelve Gates
passed through during the Egyptian eschatological journey represents. According to Theodor Abt
and Erik Hornug, authors of Knowledge for the
Afterlife: The Egyptian Amduat: "The aim of the Amduat (passage through the gates)
is that the reader becomes conscious of the guiding function of the inner Sun god or
of the "inner great human."
Mythology - Incas The Secret of the Incas by William Sullivan
Inspired by Hamlet's Mill, the author sets out to show how the Incas' Flood Myth
was also a metaphor for the precession of the equinoxes, and that it was this belief that was partly
responsible for their being conquered by the Spanish in 1532.
Mythology - Indian Lord of the Dance by Ishtar
This is an unashamed plug for my book, as it's an easy-to-read and thus a not too taxing first step
in learning about Indian mythology. As one reviewer says: "I found myself continually bursting out
laughing -- sometimes in some quite public places! -- while reading it.
I was amazed that someone could treat such a deep subject in such a humorous way, and still get
her message across. And she spoon feeds you so that don't have to miss a single drop of her tale.
Her writing flows like the Ganges and sparkles like the snow on the Himalayas.
She has the gift of enticing you along until you feel you are on the journey with her.
You can almost smell the naan bread, the jasmine and the stench of the dung fires."
Mythology - Native American History, Myths and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by James Mooney
"When I discovered James Mooney's Myths of the Cherokees some 40 years ago, I knew the feeling expressed
by the poet John Keats in his sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer: 'Then I felt like some
watcher of the skies, when a new planet swims into his ken.'" Wilma Dykeman, Appalchian author and historian.
