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Hive mind: I'm making a reading list of The Ancient Myths Of Northern Europe, including like, the Eddas, the Mabinogion, the Kalevala, and I'm crowdsourcing for recommendations to create as complete a list as possible of - ancient times, myths of gods and monsters.If you've been following along wiht my Fencraft development, it's stories which are plausibly part of a British Landweird - but shying away from including Hellenic & Roman sources, even though we did a lot of trading, because IMO they are too dominant in the way we imagine ancient religion.

I'll also be making a separate list for the best "facty" books on thse topics - Aspects of Anglo Saxon Magic and Looking for the Lost Gods of England will both be on there, as suggestions for the kinds of topics I want to include.

What have you read that's really good? Overall, imagine that I was the Grand Poobah Of A Religious Mystery Cult focused on these sorts of things, and you were looking at the syllabus for Week 3: Ancient Religions: what books would you expect to see there?

Cheers all, and if you take pleasure in self promotion, I am happy to repay the help with a namecheck or link at the bottom of the finished article

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When you find what you're looking for,and then have a lot of curation work to do:

https://celt.ucc.ie//publishd.html

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Also, part of my research into "how do I use the word Lovecraftian to describe what I mean, without violating my 'avoid recommending resources by racists' policy" is going *really well* because it turns out Lovecraft's cosmic horror precursors, Arthur Machen and Lord Dunsanay, are *really* good. And in the case of Machen, the Great God Pan is 110% on brand for my craft in a way that HP himself never is.

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Part of the problem of doing this research online is like, hmmm. I'm browsing sacred Texts and coming across books with names like "The Songs of the Russian Folk" written 1867 by Some Victorian Dude, and that's AWESOME - but I know how flawed and incomplete books of that same era by similar dudes are within like, say, Scottish tradition - and I don'tknow the first thing about Russian folklore -so it's very hard to assess which of these books are like, known to be filled with howling errors

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It's also difficult because, on the one hand, the concept of the Landweird includes "stuff that's just been made up" as valid religous revelation so long as it speaks to you and feels about right, in the context of the forgotten and the nameless gods; but on the other hand, Paganism has a long history of perpetuating utter bollocks and I guess I don't want to be part of that.

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Me: OK, time to start on researching the gods of the Celts

the Celts: 100% of our gods are sun gods associated with hot springs and healing.

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When you figure out what your Samhain ritual night must be: shivers

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"Hey this is a great resource on an obscure Romano-Celtic goddess, I'm getting a weird vibe off the guy though, no WAIT he's quoting {prominent right wing asshole provocateur} as a leading intellectual. FFS"