Monthly Archives: April, 2010
Myth Work: The Book of the Taking of Ireland (Lebor Gabála Érenn)
This is my attempts at understanding the Irish Myths and what they could tell us. The parts in bold are my thoughts on the subjects or things I want to highlight. From the Mary Jones website: This text–found in both the Book of Leinster and the Book of Fermoy–is the core text of the mythological …
A Short Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
As you know, either from the My Beliefs page on my website or from my essay A Short Look at Religion, every religion has a code of ethics and moral standards that it lives by. And yet when you look paganism that is not something that is immediately seen or found. In this essay I …
A Sort of Road Map to Developing Your Own Ethical Code
I’ve been struggling for a while to put together a code of ethics that I can live by as an Irish Traditional Polytheist. I started by looking for books on Pagan Ethics and realized that there were very few and none with information on what I had in mind. Most of the books I read …
Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Julia Annas
This book has a very simple aim to introduce the reader to the very rich subject of Ancient Philosophy. The author decides to do it not by giving the standard chronological account of tradition but giving the reader the important and revealing features of ancient philosophy. I really enjoyed the Introduction of the book because …
Living With Honour: A Pagan Ethics by Emma Restall Orr
Living With honor is divided into three parts, the first setting the stage for the following two. The first part explores the definitions and ideas that provide a religious and philosophical basis for the other parts and is made up of five chapters. Part two puts the ideas explored in part one into the practical …
Arianrhod’s Dance: A Druid Ritual Handbook by Julie White and Graeme k. Talboys
This is a companion to the book The Path Through the Forest. While the first one is the theory behind the Druid Way this one is the practical side of things. It talks about the importance of rituals and prayers, and discusses all the different cycles of life, from the cycle of the sun to …
The Path Through The Forest: A Druid Guidebook by Graeme k. Talboys and Julie White
As you can see from the title this book has two authors. The first is Julie White, a druid for many years and she was a teacher at an order before leaving to form her own grove, and the second is Graeme K. Talboys who is a Hedge Druid and holds degrees in Philosophy and …
Way of the Druid by Graeme K Talboys
The writer of this book has been a druid for 30 years, both as a member of an order and as a Hedge Druid. He also has degrees in philosophy and education. I read this book a couple of years ago and really liked it. I decided to re-read it again for a review on …
The Apple Branch: A Path To Celtic Ritual by Alexei Kondratiev
This is one of the very few books out there that discusses how to walk a Celtic rituals in a well thought out structured manner. It is not Celtic Reconstruction. It is however, a great book to read if you want to start performing your own rituals. I’ve read this book a couple of times …
Deep Ancestors: Practicing the Religion of the Proto-Indo-Europeans by Ceisiwr Serith
Have you ever looked forward to reading a book and then waited impatiently for it to arrive and when it did, you just didn’t want to read it because if you did you won’t have anything similar to it to follow it? This is how I felt with this book. There aren’t a lot of …
