18 books like The Blood Covenant

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The sacred mountains Joel Tyler Headley · 1847 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares: Religious aspects, Folklore, Mythology

Man and the sun Jacquetta Hawkes · 1962 · ★ 4.0 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A study of the relationship between the sun and man, prehistory to the hydrogen bomb. Shares: Religious aspects, Folklore, Mythology

The cat in the mysteries of religion and magic M. Oldfield Howey · 1930 · 254p · ≈ 8h · Challenging From Pegasus and the Trojan horse to the four horses of the Apocalypse, the familiar figure of the horse possesses an age-old mystique. Indeed, many cultures around the world attribute otherworldly qualities to the horse. This volume provides a rich compilation of legend and lore celebrating the sacred and magical symbolism traditionally associated with horses.Derived from classical mythology,… Shares: Religious aspects, Folklore, Mythology

Custom and myth Andrew Lang · 1884 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his… Shares: Rites and ceremonies, Folklore, Mythology

Moon lore Timothy Harley · 1885 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This sweet and erudite work from 19th-century England surveys the history of human fascination with the moon, considering materials from Ancient Egypt to modern Europe, and asking the then-unanswerable question whether anybody lives there. Shares: Religious aspects, Folklore, Mythology

Thespis Theodor Herzl Gaster · 1950 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Base for a statue of Thespis in the [[Theatre of Dionysus, 2nd century BC.]] Shares: Rites and ceremonies, Religious aspects, Mythology

Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 Andrew Lang · 1887 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Challenging This volume contains the following Contents: systems of mythology; new system proposed; mental conditions of savages, confusion with nature, totemism, magic, metamorphosis, metaphysic, psychology; nature myths; non-Aryan myths of the origin of the world and of man; Indo-Aryan myths, sources of evidence; Indian myths of the origin of the world and of man; Greek myths of the origin of the world… Shares: Rites and ceremonies, Mythology

Myth, ritual and religion Andrew Lang · 1906 · 283p · ≈ 9h · Challenging This volume contains the following Contents: systems of mythology; new system proposed; mental conditions of savages, confusion with nature, totemism, magic, metamorphosis, metaphysic, psychology; nature myths; non-Aryan myths of the origin of the world and of man; Indo-Aryan myths, sources of evidence; Indian myths of the origin of the world and of man; Greek myths of the origin of the world… Shares: Rites and ceremonies, Mythology

The golden age of myth & legend Thomas Bulfinch · 1900 · 495p · ≈ 16h · Challenging The Age of Fable is a Mythological type of book. It contains many Greek and Roman myths, including simplified versions of The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as a selection of Norse and “eastern” myths. Thomas Bulfinch’s goal was to make the ancient myths accessible to a wide audience, and so it is suitable for children. Shares: Folklore, Mythology

Traditions of the Tinguian Fay-Cooper Cole · 1915 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Abstracts: p. 202-226. Shares: Folklore, Mythology

The Cult Of The Heavenly Twins J. Rendel Harris · 1906 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Shares: Religious aspects, Folklore, Mythology

Worlds in collision Immanuel Velikovsky · 1950 · ★ 4.0 · 401p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "First Delta printing January 1965." Bibliographical footnotes. Shares: Religious aspects, Folklore, Mythology

Popular Tales from Norse Mythology George Webbe Dasent · 2001 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Full of giants, trolls, heroes, and beautiful princesses, these 42 folktales include such favorites as "Temptations," "The Magician's Pupil," "Legend of Tannhäuser," "The Outlaw," "The Widow's Son," and "The Goatherd." Shares: Folklore, Mythology

The sacred mushroom and the cross John Marco Allegro · 1970 · ★ 4.2 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The book relates the development of language to the development of myths, religions, and cultic practices in world cultures. Allegro argues, through etymology, that the roots of Christianity, and many other religions, lay in fertility cults, and that cult practices, such as ingesting visionary plants to perceive the mind of God, persisted into the early Christian era, and to some unspecified… Shares: Religious aspects, Christianity, Mythology

African Myths (Graphic Mythology) Gary Jeffrey · 2005 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Moderate First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods. From the vivid adventures of the great Celtic hero Cu Chulaind, to the… Shares: Folklore, Mythology

Personality Plus Florence Littauer · 1983 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A revealing "personality profile" self-test and Littauer's insightful advice help readers better understand themselves and others. A best-seller. Shares: Religious aspects, Christianity

Bulfinch's Mythology Vols. 2&3 Thomas Bulfinch · 1962 · ★ 3.5 For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity. Shares: Folklore, Mythology

The road to Hel Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson · 1943 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Challenging This 1943 book uses a variety of evidence from archaeology and literature concerning Norse funeral customs to reconstruct their conception of future life. Shares: Religious aspects, Folklore, Mythology

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