/lit/ - Literature

>>13422655
Sorcery and Religion in Ancient Scandinavia

>>13422706
lol, im not reading a book by this retard. NEXT!

Unironically the Veda

Death in Midsummer

>>13422655
Faust

>>13422655
Marvel magazines

Plato
Aristotle
Plotinus
Poryphry
Proclus
Iamblichus
Macrobius

>>13423043
Just watch the films, that'll give you the gist of it.

>>13422655
poetic edda

>>13422655
>European
>paganism
What is this shit? Choose one because "European paganism" doesn't mean anything; it's an anachronism, Europe didn't exist as you know it when paganism existed.

>>13424266
t. retard

>>13422655
Roman Honor: Fire in the Bones is a great work on the Roman psyche. It's not strictly religious, but is absolutely necessary for understanding Roman (and, indeed, Indo-European) religion as more than just a collection of rituals.

Mary Beard wrote a two-part series on Roman Religion. It's encyclopedic, but is very thorough. It's more academicnthan Roman Honor. It covers the earliest Roman Religion, the Mystery Cults, and finally Christianity.

Orpheus poems, Plato, Plotinus, Proclus.

>>13422655
Neoplatonism was the metaphysic or 'theology' of graeco-roman and peripheral paganisms.

>>13424398
t. burger

>>13422655
The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion.
The author has a site you can use for further recommendations and supplementary info.
https://norse-mythology.org/odr-concept/

Once you have some understanding of it, you should read works that involve pagan worldview and customs, such as Beowulf.

>>13422655
The Beginner's Guide to Live Action Role Playing

The Error of the Pagan Religions by Julius Firmicus Maternus
Concerning the Nature of the Gods by Marcus Minucius Felix
Ad Donatum by St. Cyprian
Against Heresies by St. Irenaeus

These really have everything that you need to know about paganism.

>>13422706
Exquisitely based, fellow Varg pilled gentleman

>>13425068
>don't understand it just read these misunderstandings meant as political fuel
Those authors are more pagan than Christian by today's standards, and the standards of original Christianity.

>>13425116
>early Christians didn't understand paganism
>also they were pagans themselves

Choose one, kiddo.

>>13425128
Most early Christians were Semites, so yes they knew absolutely nothing about European religions. It made Tertullian very upset that Zeus' eyes are blue and Athena's grey and that Hera wore more than one set of clothes. Early Christians were completely baffled by "ox-eyed" Hera, "wolf-eyed Mars", and "white-armed Athena". Not to mention their complete, and comical, lack of understanding of sacrifice.

>>13425183
Didn’t the early semites sacrifice like crazy to yhwh?

>>13425068
Ironically, the early Saints of the Church have some of the oldest intact records of paganism that we still have, thus making them extremely important to the study of paganism. Stuff like Plato and Plotinus are philosophers and not religious writers, making them rather incomplete for understanding the totality of the religious practice.

>>13425201
There are more Semitic peoples than just Jews you know.

>>13425239
Iamblichus is more informative than any christian author.

Summa contra Gentiles

>>13425183

As a non Semite I feel that following a Judaic religion is, well, just plain wrong. It is a form of cultural appropriation. I would be embarassed around Jewish people if I followed a crude heresy derived from their own religion.

>>13425183
All of the authors I posted were Gentiles.

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>>13425344
We need to have a conversation about the influence of prominent Jewish individuals in the New Age and neopagan movements from the 19th to 2Xst centuries.

>>13425379
This chart is factually wrong in so many places. Baptist being derived from Anglican for example is ridiculous. This is comparable to /pol/ infographs.

Theogony
Works and Days
Metamorphoses
Iliad

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

>>13422655
Pagan Imperialism, by Julius Evola