Grimr Reading List

The following is an incomplete reading list.  I put this together randomly over the last two hours.  There is no particular order to it, and it is missing the authors currently.  Additionally, to make it a complete list, I would want to provide a summary of each book, my opinion of them, and a link either to a place it is available to read online in the case of older books, or a place to purchase them for the newer books, if either of these exist.  Some of these are easily obtained.  Others are out of print but not out of copyright and very hard to find, especially at a reasonable price.  The first section is a list of books.  The second is a list of magazines and periodicals.  Anything on either of these list, I recommend or it wouldn't be on here.  Some, however, I have not read and/or do not currently have access to.  I have included some that are highly recommended by people I respect.  I have included some that I know the author and the author's work, and hence know the book listed will be good.  I have included some that I haven't finished reading but recommend it based on what I've read so far.  I have included fiction and non-fiction, history and myth, religious texts and magic texts, esoteric and exoteric texts.  Some people will like some things on this list, others will not, but will like other things.  Some of these are based on years of research, some completely intuitive.  Some are very intellectual, some are very mystical.  Some are very practical, some are purely theoretical.  But all are related to my path, my walk, my stream, and I recommend all of them, just not to everyone.  Take it for what it is.  Your mileage may very.


Book List

• The White Goddess
• The Golden Bough
• Tubelo's Green Fire
• Riding Windhorses
• Drawing Down the Spirits: The Traditions and Techniques of Spirit Possession
• Share My Insanity
• Goddess Initiation
• Fifty Years in the Feri Tradition
• Etheric Anatomy
• The White Wand
• Evolutionary Witchcraft
• Kissing the Limitless
• Spiral Dance
• Magic and Witchcraft
• The Zohar
• Practical Chinese Medicine
• The Web That Has No Weaver
• Tao Te Ching
• I Ching
• The Herb Book
• A History of Medieval Christianity: Prophecy and Order
• Religious Dissent in the Middle Ages
• Witchcraft in the Middle Ages
• A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, Pagans
• Satan: The Early Christian Tradition
• Dissent and Reform in the Early Middle Ages
• Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages
• Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World
• The Prince of Darkness: Evil and the Power of Good of History
• Dissent and Order in the Middle Ages: The Search for Legitimate Authority
• A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence
• Paradise Mislaid
• Inquisition
• I Asked For Wonder
• Plants of Life, Plants of Death
• Primal Myths
• Goddess of the North
• The God of the Witches
• The Elements of the Grail Tradition
• The Jewish Book of Days
• The Kabbalah: The Essential Texts From the Zohar
• The Book of Qualities
• Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies
• Stillness Speaks
• Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia
• Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
• The Elements of the Runes
• The Art of War
• Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
• A Field Guide to Irish Fairies
• The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Myth and Legend: A Definitive Sourcebook of Magic, Vision, and Lore
• The Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind
• Magic that Works
• Aradia: Gospel of the Witches
• Roles of the Northern Goddess
• Pillars of Tubal Cain
• Thorns of the Blood Rose
• The Formation Of A Persecuting Society: Power And Deviance In Western Europe, 950-1250
• Sefer Yetzirah: The Book of Creation
• The Origins of European Dissent
• Diodorus Siculus: Library of History
• Lilith's Garden
• Azoetia
• Qutub
• The Roebuck in the Thicket
• The Robert Cochrane Letters
• The Complete Brother Grimm Fairy Tales
• The Book of Fallen Angels
• Masks of Misrule
• The Lesser Key of Solomon
• The Greater Key of Solomon
• Witchcraft: A Tradition Renewed
• History of the Kings of Britain
• Book of Invasions
• Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism
• The Middle Pillar
• Chicken Qabalah
• The DustBunnies/MarchHares Big Damn Handout Volume I
• Black Book of the Yezidi
• Drawing Down the Moon
• The Religion of the Teutons
• The Guide for the Perplexed
• The Book of Lies
• The Book of Thoth
• The Book of the Law
• 231 Gates of Initiation
• The Cloud of Unknowing
• Little Flowers of St. Francis
• Miracles and Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Le Morte D'Arthur
• Living with Contradiction
• The White Hart
• Taleisen
• Merlin
• Arthur
• Pendragon
• Grail
• Avalon: the Return of King Arthur
• The Crystal Cave
• The Hollow Hills
• The Last Enchantment
• The Wicked Day
• The Prince and the Pilgrim
• One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
• Aesop's Fables
• Andersen's Fairy Tales
• The Traveler
• The Dark River
• The Golden City
• Vellum
• Ink
• The Interior Castle

Magazines and Periodicals

• The Cauldron
• Witch Eye: A Journal of Feri Uprising 
• Circle Magazine
• Witch's Almanac

FFF,

~Muninn's Kiss

Six New Books, From Inanna to the Grail, From Mongolia to the Modern World

Yesterday, I bought three new books from Night Heron, the local used bookstore, and ordered three from Amazon, which will be here in a couple weeks.

Starhawk is the author of the famous book Spiral Dance.  She is a Feri initiate who went out and did her own thing.  This book, Truth or Dare, is a look at the nature of Power and how to find us in our lives to create change in our lives and communities.  It uses the myth of the descent of Inanna, in several different retellings, to present this idea.  It uses the descent to show how we need to identify and shed off the things that hold us back.

This book, Elements of the Grail Tradition by John Matthews, looks at the test, trials, and initiations found in the Arthurian and Grail legends in the pursuit of the Grail, from the most ancient known Celtic legends up through the Middle Ages, to identify what the Grail truly is.

This book is by my friend Francesca De Grandis.  I've been wanting to get Goddess Initiation since I picked it up in the Tattered Cover down in Denver a year or so ago, before I knew Francesca and didn't notice who the author was.   I was very excited to find it here in town.  The book is basically a year long lesson plan on how to find your inner goddess and your priesthood.

This book, The Book of Qualities by J. Ruth Gendler, is basically a book of personifications of common human qualities.  A friend of mine from of mine from high school posted a piece about Beauty from it on Facebook and it really touched me, so I found it and ordered it.  It looks amazing.

This book is a guide to Mongolian and Siberian shamanism.  The author, Sarangerel, is actually trained in Mongolia.  She was born in the US but of a Mongol bloodline, and traveled to Mongolia and did the work and study and research to truly know the tradition and the people of her ancestors, then share it with world.  This book is her introduction to the tradition, including rituals and techniques.  It is one of the major sources for one of the books I'm reading, Calling Down the Spirits.

This is Francesca De Grandis's newest book, just recently released.  It looks amazing.  It is about finding and realizing your dreams, seeing your own beauty, and finding your freedom.  I'm really looking forward to it arriving.


FFF,
~Muninn's Kiss