Reading list

In general these are texts I’d recommend educated religiously inclined H to study texts of heathen cultures comparable to ours:

    1. the yasht-s of the old Iranians; then others in order:
    1. The Homeric hymns & thereafter the Orphic hymns & the hymns of Proclus.
    1. The Iguvine tablets, Vergil Herculean hymn, Carmen Arvale.
    1. Aspects of the Poetic Edda.
    1. Papyri Graecae Magicae
    1. Hittite incantation texts.
    1. Egyptian Book of Dead & temple texts;
    1. Hymn to Enlil etc Mesopotamian material.