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Booklist 2013, 61-65 22 Jul 2013 | 12:57 am
61. Prudence Jones & Nigel Pennick, A History of Pagan Europe. This provides a decent basic overview of European paleopaganism, with a shorter section on the 18th/19th century Revival and modern neopa...
Booklist 2013, 54-60 6 Jul 2013 | 03:34 pm
54. Guy de la Bedoyere, Gods with Thunderbolts: Religion in Roman Britain. I got this mainly to look up a reference, but it turned out to be a great buy. It covers the whole spectrum of British religi...
My virtual doppelganger 27 Jun 2013 | 12:53 am
For light relief inbetween dealing with undertakers, doctors and sympathy calls, I am currently reading Diary of a Witchcraft Shop by mevennen and her partner. This has led me to the belated realisati...
Booklist 2013, 48 - 53 20 Jun 2013 | 11:03 pm
The ebooks, as promised: 48. Ken Dowden, European Paganism: The Realities of Cult from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Does pretty much what it says on the tin, and for the most part I really liked it....
Booklist 2013, 43 - 47 18 Jun 2013 | 11:06 pm
This is a quick roundup of the paper books I've read since my last post; there will be another one for the ebooks at the weekend. Probably. 43. Polly Lloyd, About Glastonbury 44. Nicholas R. Mann, Gl...
On pop culture, heroes and gods 12 Jun 2013 | 12:17 pm
There's been a bit of a kafuffle in the Pagan blogosphere recently about the worship of pop culture figures or "invented" deities (if you've missed it, I'd start with this post on Allergic Pagan. This...
Glastonbury pictures... 24 May 2013 | 04:20 pm
... now up on Flickr. Also, Spotify is being sentient ;-) As I went to post this, it started playing Heather Alexander's Sword and Staff, which starts "Circlet of the Holy Thorn..." (and mentions a S...
What I Have To Offer, by Benedict Smith 23 May 2013 | 10:54 am
On trains in London you are told to mind the gap And the gap is a gap between people They do not talk or make eye contact The solitude is protocol But at 1 in the morning If an elderly piss-stinking ...
Booklist 2013, 36-42 4 May 2013 | 02:46 am
36. Rev. Robert Lee (Skip) Ellison, The Solitary Druid. Ellison is a former Archdruid of ADF and wrote this book in response to questions he used to receive in that capacity from solitary Druids. It's...
Booklist 2013, 33-35 22 Apr 2013 | 11:29 am
33. J.P. Mallory, In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth. Reviewed on my Dedicant blog. 34. Philip A. Shaw, Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the...
