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Recently added/updated
(1/30/2006):

The Jataka, Vol. II


Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources (1/22/2006)

The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology (1/19/2006)

A Journey in Southern Siberia (1/13/2006)

Fusang, or The Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century (1/11/2006)

Kali the Mother (1/9/2006)

The Jataka, Vol. I (1/8/2006)

Indian Myth and Legend (1/2/2006).

Gypsy Folk Tales, and the Roma Index (12/21/2005).

Tower Legends (12/14/2005)

The Argonautica parallel English/Greek (12/13/2005)

The Amish (12/12/2005)

The Voyage of Bran (12/11/2005)

Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race (12/9/2005)

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria (12/5/2005)

Celtic Myth and Legend, by Charles Squire. (11/22/2005)

The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila (11/22/2005)

Hymns to the Goddess (11/20/2005)

Hindu Mysticism (11/15/2005)

The Way of Power (11/14/2005)

Dynamic Thought (11/12/2005)

Tacitus parallel English/Latin (11/11/2005)

The History of Herodotus parallel English/Greek (11/10/2005)

The Creed of Buddha (11/9/2005)

Greek Popular Religion (11/8/2005)

The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg, Volume II 11/7/2005

The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg, Volume I 11/6/2005

The Philosophy of Alfarabi (11/3/2005)

Carmina Gadelica, Volume II (11/1/2005)

Carmina Gadelica, Volume I (10/25/2005)

The Wandering Host (10/24/2005)

The Hidden Power (10/21/2005)

The Zohar: Bereshith to Lekh Lekha (10/18/2005)

Creative Mind (10/16/2005)

The Kabbalah, or the Religious Philosophy of the Hebrews (10/13/2005)

Sepher Yezirah (10/3/2005)

In the Beginning: A Navaho Creation Myth (9/28/2005)
This was contributed by the volunteer known as 'Simon Magus.' Thanks!

The Talmud: Selections (9/26/2005)

Jewish Mysticism (9/23/2005)

Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 9: The Qur’ân, part II (9/21/2005)

Thought Relics, by Rabindranath Tagore (prepared by JBH),
also Navajo Creation Myth, prepared by the volunteer known as 'Simon Magus'. (9/20/2005)

Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 6: The Qur’ân, part I
(9/17/2005) I've also uploaded the Philosophy and Shakespeare sections, which were previously only available on the CD-ROM.

The Secret Rose Garden of Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari (9/9/2005)

Islam, by John A. Williams. (9/6/2005)

Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory (9/4/2005)

SBE20: Vinaya Texts, Part III (8/28/2005)

SBE19: The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King, a Life of Buddha (8/23/2005)

SBE18: Pahlavi Texts, Part II (8/19/2005)

SBE17: Vinaya Texts, Part II (8/4/2005) (JBH)
Also, a volunteer has contributed Old Norse Poems

SBE03: Confucian Texts Part I
(7/30/2005) This is a complete overhaul of this important SBE volume.

SBE14: Sacred Laws of the Âryas, part II (7/26/2005)

The Sacred Theory of the Earth (7/21/2005)

Manners, Customs and Observances (7/19/2005)
Thanks to Eliza at sacredspiral.com!

Christian Topography (7/13/2005)

The Book of Earths (7/11/2005)

The Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man (7/6/2005)

Tibetan Folk Tales (7/5/2005)

Pistis Sophia (7/3/2005)

A Journey to the Earth's Interior (6/28/2005)

SBE02: Sacred Laws of the Âryas, part I (6/27/2005)
A completely re-edited and improved version of this text.

Mazes & Labyrinths, A General Account of Their History and Development (6/23/2005)

Lives of the Greek Heroines (6/20/2005)

Traces of the Norse Mythology in the Isle of Man (6/19/2005)

The Phantom of the Poles (6/18/2005)

Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe (6/16/2005)

The Art of Worldly Wisdom (6/10/2005)

The Virgin of the World (6/8/2005)

The Cellular Cosmogony.
Also, started the Earth Mysteries index. (6/7/2005)

The Divine Pymander (6/2/2005)

The Kojiki (6/1/2005)

Tertium Organum (5/22/2005)

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii (5/17/2005)

Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (5/8/2005)

Mission Memories (5/3/2005)

Verses of Vemana (5/1/2005)

Later Poems, by W.B. Yeats (4/27/2005)

The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden (4/25/2005)

Hawaiian Historical Legends (4/23/2005)

The Vimanika Shastra (4/21/2005)

Hawaiian Mythology (4/19/2005)

The Kumulipo (Liliuokalani, tr.) (4/12/2005)

Kalidasa: Shakuntala and Other Works (4/10/2005)

The Phynodderree and Other Legends of the Isle of Man
Thanks to Eliza Yetter from Sacred Spiral!

SBE 38: The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, with commetary by Sankara, Part II (4/6/2005)
Thanks to Srinivasan Sriram and Distributed Proofing!

An Introduction to Astrology (4/2/2005)

Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans (3/27/2005)

Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (3/23/2005)

Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends (3/20/2005)

A Heifer of the Dawn (3/18/2005)

The Descent of the Sun (3/10/2005)

The Devi Bhagavatam (3/8/2005)
Thanks to the volunteer known as 'Sahaji'!

The Worship of the Serpent (3/6/2005)

Other Tongues--Other Flesh (2/15/2005)

The Doctrine of the Last Things (2/15/2005)

Notes on the Book of the Revelation (2/12/2005)

The Man of Sorrows (2/11/2005)

Râmakrishna, His Life and Sayings (2/8/2005)

Morals and Dogma (2/6/2005)

also, Lore of the Unicorn (2/6/2005), thanks to Eliza Yetter from sacredspiral.com!

The Builders (1/29/2005)

Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor (1/27/2005)

The Druid Path (1/24/2005)

Pagan Prayers (1/18/2005)

Mahabharata, Book 13: Anusasana Parva This completes the Mahabharata etext (1/12/2005).

The Hero of Esthonia, volume 2.
(1/7/2005) Thanks to 'Simon Magus'!

Myths and Legends of the Andamans (1/6/2005)

How To Be A Yogi (1/2/2005)

Ancient Art and Ritual (12/30/2004)

The Official Monitor of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, State of Texas (12/22/2004)

Stories of Russian Folk-Life (12/20/2004)

The Key of Gold: 23 Czech Folk Tales (12/18/2004)

The Book of Revelation, by Clarence Larkin (12/15/2004)

Festivals of Western Europe (12/10/2004)
Thanks to Eliza at Sacred Spiral!

The Awakening of Faith (12/9/2004)

The Legends of Genesis (12/5/2004)

The Mahabharata, Book 12, part 3
This completes Book 12 of the Mahabharata.

The Mahabharata, Book 12, part 2 (11/21/2004)

The Garden of Eden [JBH]
Yoruba Legends [Simon Magus] (11/21/2004)

The Mahabharata, Book 12, part 1 (11/20/2004)

Heroic Ballads of Servia
(11/14/2004) Thanks to 'Simon Magus'!

The Hero of Esthonia, vol. 1.
Thanks to 'Simon Magus'! (11/13/2004)

The Bhagavad Gita in Sanskrit. (11/10/2004)

The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom by Shankara
and The Ramayana in Sanskrit (11/6/2004)

Mahabharata Book 7: Drona Parva (11/4/2004)

Mysticism, Christian and Buddhist (11/1/2004)

Zen for Americans (10/25/2004)

The Negro, by W.E.B. Du Bois. (10/23/2004)

The Mahabharata, Book 5: Udyoga Parva (10/22/2004)

The Promised Key (10/17/2004)

Sumerian Mythology (10/14/2004)

The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy (10/8/2004)

Religious Tenets of the Yezeedees (10/7/2004)

Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire (10/4/2004)

The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (9/30/2004)
The source book for Mel Gibson's controversial movie The Passion of Christ.

Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland (9/26/2004)

A Hundred Verses from Old Japan (9/19/2004)

Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei (9/17/2004)

The Story of Gio (9/16/2004)

Devil Worship: The Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz (9/15/2004)

Yaqui Myths and Legends (9/3/2004)

Folk Tales of Brittany (9/1/2004)

9/11 Remembrance Page (8/31/2004)

The Life of Merlin (Vita Merlini) (8/30/2004)

A Buddhist Bible (8/28/2004)

Legends and Romances of Brittany (8/25/2004)

The Sacred Magic of Abramelin (8/17/2004)

Orpheus: Myths of the World [JBH].
The Orkneyingers Saga, thanks to northvegr.org (8/12/2004).


NOTE: everything below this line made it into the 4.0 version of the CD-ROM. Everything above will be in the next version.

Two more works by Aristotle: Poetics, and Politics. (8/5/2004)

The Septuagint (8/4/2004)

The Children of Odin (7/30/2004)
The Great March (7/30/2004)

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales (7/28/2004)

Aristotle page (7/27/2004)

Paradoxes of the Highest Science (7/24/2004)

The Book of Jubilees (7/22/2004)

Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism (7/16/2004)

The Theogony of Hesiod in Greek (7/13/2004)

Easton's Bible Dictionary (update)
(7/10/2004) Added hyperlinks from the EBD back into the KJV.

Seneca Indian Myths (7/8/2004)

The Heroic Enthusiasts, Part II (6/28/2004)

Iroquoian Cosmology (6/24/2004)

The Candle of Vision (6/21/2004)

The Book of Giants (6/20/2004)
contributed by 'Simon Magus'.

Early British Trackways (6/17/2004)

The Canon of Reason and Virtue (6/16/2004)
This is an additional translation of the Tao te Ching which includes the complete Chinese text in embedded graphics.

The Coming of the Fairies (6/15/2004)

The Secret Teachings of All Ages. (6/11/2004)

The Book of Enoch (6/5/2004)

Love's Coming-of-Age (6/3/2004)

A Book of Saints and Wonders (6/2/2004)
Contributed by Phillip Brown. Thanks Phillip!

The Pyramid Texts (6/1/2004),
scanned at sacred-texts.com, is literally the oldest book in the world.
Dragons and Dragon Lore, (6/1/2004)
thanks to Eliza at sacredspiral.com

The Holy Qur'an (5/26/2004)
This includes the Yusuf Ali translation, pronunciation guide and Arabic script in gif image files.

Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. IV (5/22/2004)
This completes the entire four volumes of this work. I've also added a master index for the series.

The Biblical Antiquities of Philo (5/13/2004)

The Story of the Champions of the Round Table (5/7/2004)

Stories of the Months and Days (5/6/2004)
Contributed by Eliza Fegley at sacredspiral.com Thanks, Eliza!

Legends and Romances of Spain (5/4/2004)
Contributed by H.G. Thanks!

Gisli the Outlaw
I also added the Icelandic Lore index. (5/1/2004).

The Forgotten Books of Eden (4/27/2004)

The Ideals of the East (4/23/2004)

Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. III (4/21/2004)

A Study of Fairy Tales (4/21/2004)
Contributed by Eliza Fegley at sacredspiral.com. Thanks, Eliza!

Psalms of the Sisters (4/15/2004)
Thanks to Mary Mark Ockerbloom of A Celebration of Women Writers

Pagan and Christian Creeds (4/15/2004)
Thanks to Eliza at sacredspiral.com for providing the initial proof file on this text!

Ioläus (4/15/2004)

A Problem in Greek Ethics (4/13/2004)

Mother Shipton Investigated (4/8/2004)

Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. II (4/7/2004)

The Lost Lemuria
plus, Four Theosophical maps of Atlantis and Two Theosophical maps of Lemuria. (3/31/2004)

Popular Tales from the Norse (3/28/2004)

Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. I (3/26/2004)

Baltic Wizards (3/23/2004)
contributed by Eliza Fegley at Sacred Spiral Kids Thanks, Eliza!

Jataka Tales (3/22/2004)
contributed by Eliza Fegley at Sacred Spiral Kids Thanks, Eliza!

Folk Tales From the Russian (3/18/2004)
Contributed by 'Some Dude'. Thanks, Dude!

The Four Ancient Books of Wales (3/17/2004)

Cuchulain of Muirthemne (3/10/2004).
An update of this etext.

Japanese Fairy Tales (3/6/2004)
Contributed by Eliza at sacredspiral.com. Thanks, Eliza!

Unicode Homer (3/5/2004)

The Mabinogion (3/4/2004)
This is an updated and expanded version of this etext.

The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies (2/27/2004)

The Evil Eye (2/25/2004)

The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy (2/21/2004)
thanks to Eliza Fegley at sacredspiral.com

Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth and Legend (2/19/2004)

The Norse Discovery of America (2/18/2004)

Basque Legends (2/15/2004)

Legends and Popular Tales of the Basque People (2/10/2004)

The Religion of the Ancient Celts (2/7/2004)

Some Western Shoshoni Myths (2/2/2004)

Origin Myth of Acoma (1/30/2004)

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (updated) (1/28/2004)
This is a revised version of this etext with numerous corrections. I added a missing chapter and reformatted it to current site standards.

How I Found the Lost Atlantis, by Paul Schliemann (1/26/2004)

Mahabharata, Book 6: Bhishma Parva (1/23/2004)

Mahabharata, Book 14: Aswamedha Parva (1/16/2004)

Mahabharata, Book 15: Asramavasika Parva (1/13/2004)

Drums and Shadows (1/10/2004)

Early Life of the Pennsylvania Germans (1/9/2004)
Donated by Eliza Fegley. Thanks Eliza!

Stories from the Faerie Queene (1/8/2004)

Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons (1/5/2004)

Funeral Customs (1/4/2004)
contributed by Eliza at sacredspiral.com. Thanks Eliza!

Indians of The Yosemite Valley and Vicinity (1/1/2004)

From Ritual to Romance (12/31/2003)

The Amazons (12/29/2003)

Alchemy Rediscovered and Restored (12/22/2003)

There are a couple of new articles about Taoism here and here, thanks to Chris Weimer.
Also Chris donated some articles about the Isma`ili branch of Shi'ite Islam. (12/21/2003)

The Faerie Queene
The Golden Asse
Many new Dramas of Euripides
The Enneads of Plotinus (12/19/2003)

The Delight Makers (12/18/2003)

The Symbolism of the Tarot, by P. D. Ouspensky (12/14/2003)

Tales of the Cochiti Indians, by Ruth Benedict (12/12/2003)

The Sacred Symbols of Mu (12/9/2003)

In The Seven Woods, by W. B. Yeats (12/5/2003)

Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories (12/4/2003)

The Vampire Codex (12/2/2003)

The Mahabharata, Book 4
The Songs of Bilitis (12/1/2003)

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (11/29/2003)

The Worm Ouroboros (11/27/2003)

Tao, the Great Luminant (11/20/2003)
thanks to Chris Weimer!

The Magic of the Horse-Shoe (11/19/2003)
contributed by Eliza at sacredspiral.org. Thanks Eliza!

Moon Lore (11/18/2003)

Ishtar and Izdubar (11/13/2003)

The Lore and the Lure of the Yosemite (11/10/2003)

The Chaldean Account of the Deluge
Algonquin Legends of New England (11/9/2003)

The Realness of Witchcraft in America and
Book of Nature Myths -- thanks Eliza!
Eskimo of Siberia -- thanks Chris!
Human Nature in the Bible -- thanks 'Some Dude'!
(11/6/2003)

Creation Myths of Primitive America (11/4/2003)

The Popol Vuh (10/28/2003)

Teutonic Myth and Legend (10/25/2003)

Chukchee Mythology
Contributed by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris! (10/20/2003)

Dancing Gods (10/18/2003)

The Child Ballads (10/15/2003)

Mahabharata 8-11, 16-18 (10/14/2003)

The Nō Plays of Japan (10/13/2003)

The Holy Piby [JBH] (10/4/2003)
The Angel of the Prairies, contributed by 'Some Dude'. Thanks Dude! (10/4/2003)

Feng Shui (10/2/2003)

Robin Hood [JBH] (10/1/2003)
Origins of Popular Supersitions and Customs (contributed by Eliza at sacredspiral.com. Thanks Eliza!). (10/1/2003).


NOTE: everything below this line made it into the 3.0 version of the CD-ROM. Everything above will be in the next version.

Yana Texts (9/20/2003)

Tarot of the Bohemians [JBH] (9/18/2003)

Taoist Texts, donated by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris! (9/18/2003)

Angelus Silesius
Ssuma Ch'ien
Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure
These were donated by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris! (9/15/2003)

Folk-Lore of Women
Donated by Eliza Fegley from sacredspiral.com. Thanks Eliza! (9/12/2003)

The Book of Noodles
Donated by 'Some Dude'. Thanks Dude! (9/12/2003)

Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut, and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia (9/11/2003)

Chinigchinich, by Boscana (9/10/2003)

The Story of the Chaup; A Myth of the Diegueños
Mythology of the Mission Indians
Two Myths of the Mission Indians of California
The Legend of Tauquitch and Algoot (9/9/2003)

Koryak Texts (9/5/2003)

Death and Funeral Customs Among the Omaha (9/3/2003)
Unicode Qur'an (9/3/2003)

Dawn of the World (8/28/2003)

Aw-aw-tam Indian Nights (Myths and Legends of the Pima) (8/26/2003)

A Book of Old English Ballads (8/23/2003)

The Mahabharata, Book 3: Vana Parva (8/21/2003)

Thanks to everyone at Distributed Proofing who worked on this!

Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians (8/17/2003)

Tsimshian Texts (Nass River Dialect) (8/14/2003)

Maidu Texts (8/12/2003)

Truth of a Hopi (8/10/2003).

The Religion of Numa (8/9/2003)

Hupa Texts (8/8/2003)

The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) (8/6/2003)

The Science of Mind (8/5/2003)

Tlingit Myths and Texts (8/2/2003)

Unicode Greek New Testament (8/1/2003)

Easton's Bible Dictionary (7/28/2003)

Haida Songs (7/24/2003)

Tsimshian Texts (7/23/2003)

The Trojan Women by Euripides
Donated by Eliza at Sacredspiral.com. Thanks Eliza! (7/21/2003).

SBE 40: Taoist Texts, part II
(update, see below) (7/20/2003)

SBE 39: Taoist Texts, part I (7/19/2003)
This is an updated version of this text, with Chinese characters embedded as high resolution monochrome image files.

The Chilam Balam (7/17/2003)

Kwakiutl Tales (7/15/2003)

The Seeming Unreality of the Spiritual Life
The Gist of Swedenborg (7/14/2003)
Two texts donated by 'Some Dude'. Thanks, Dude!

Also, I reformatted the Walam Olum and wrote a new introduction (7/14/2003).

Chinook Texts (7/12/3003)

Worship of the Generative Powers (7/11/2003)
Contributed by Eliza at sacredspiral.com. Thanks Eliza!

Taboo, Magic, Spirits (7/9/2003)
Contributed by Eliza at sacredspiral.com. Thanks Eliza!

Coos Texts (7/8/2003)
I also started the Northwestern Native American section.

The Upanishads, Part II (SBE15) (7/7/2003)
A completely new version of this etext.

The Upanishads, Part I (SBE01) (6/28/2003)
A completely new version of this etext.

The Gospel of Barnabas (6/25/2003)
Islamic apocrypha, contributed by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris!

Pagan Regeneration (6/25/2003)
contributed by Eliza Fegley at sacredspiral.com. Thanks Eliza!

The Oracles of Nostradamus (6/24/2003)

The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship (6/22/2003)

The Vedanta Sutras with commentary by Sankaracharya, Part I (SBE34)
Thanks to Srinivasan Sriram, Juliet Sutherland, and a cast of thousands at Distributed Proofing! (6/20/2003)

Jicarilla Apache Texts (6/15/2003)

A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus
Eliza at sacredspiral.com proofread the body of this text. Thanks Eliza! (6/12/2003)

Bushido, The Soul of Japan (6/11/2003)

The Questions of King Milinda, Part II (SBE 36)
Milinda is complete! (6/9/2003)
The Bible, the Koran, and the Talmud
A set of Islamic Biblical legends, thanks to Chis Weimer. (6/9/2003)

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche (6/4/2003)

The Royal Museum at Naples (6/2/2003)

The Questions of King Milinda, pt. 1 (SBE 35) (5/29/2003)

Added the Miscellaneous section. (5/26/2003).

Ophiolatreia
Contributed by Northvegr.org. (5/26/2003)

Bygone Beliefs
Contributed by Eliza at sacredspiral.com. Thanks, Eliza! (5/26/2003)

The Mahabharata, Book 2: Sahba Parva (5/23/2003)

The Smokey the Bear Sutra (5/22/203)

The Egyptian Heaven and Hell (vol III)(5/21/2003)

Thanks to Chris Weimer for the following two Inuit books:
Eskimo Folk-Tales
Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo (5/21/2003)

The Book of Gates (5/18/2003)

The Book of the Am-Tuat (5/14/2003)

Legends of the Gods, the Egyptian Texts
Updated and expanded version of this text. (5/9/2003)

The Liturgy of Funerary Offerings (5/7/2003)

Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism and Egyptian Monotheism (5/4/2003)

Twenty-two Goblins (4/24/2003)

Indian Fairy Tales
Old Deccan Days (4/23/2003)

English Fairy and Other Folk Tales
A Peep at the Pixies (4/22/2003)

The Mahabharata, Book I: Adi Parva
Thanks to everyone at Distributed Proofing who worked on this!
A Sufi Message of Spritual Liberty
Thanks to Sergey Moskalev for this Sufi text!
(4/21/2003)

More English Fairy Tales (4/18/2003)

English Fairy Tales (4/17/2003)

Apu Ollantay (4/16/2003)

Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales (4/15/2003)

The Poems of Ossian
The Book of Hallowe'en
The Book of Hallowe'en was contributed by Eliza Fegley of sacredspiral.com. Thanks Eliza! (4/12/2003)

The I Ching (4/5/2003)
This is a completely updated etext of the SBE 16 version of this key text, translated by James Legge.


NOTE: everything below this line made it into the 2.0 version of the CD-ROM. Everything above will be in the next version.

The Religious System of the Amazulu
A new African text, contributed by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris! (3/29/2003)

Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas
Some new Inca material contributed by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris! (3/28/2003)

South American Page
Chris Weimer has contributed a couple of great files about South American traditions, so there is a new index for this topic. Thanks Chris!

Roumanian Fairy Tales and Legends (3/18/2003)

Wagner's Ring of the Niblung (3/18/2003)

The Wisdom of the Egyptians (3/14/2003)

King Arthur: Tales of the Round Table (3/13/2003).

The Ramayana
The first complete public domain translation online. (3/10/2002)

The Awakening of Faith of Ashvagosha
A Mahayana Buddhist text. (3/6/2003)

Fairies
The Fairy Mythology
The Science of Fairy Tales
A Book of Folk-Lore
Tom Tit Tot, An Essay on Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale (3/7/2003)

On the Study of Celtic Literature
The Irish Sketch-book
Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies (3/5/2003)

In Wicklow and West Kerry
The King of Ireland's Son
Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World (3/4/2003)

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland
Celtic Wonder Tales
Beside the Fire
The Aran Islands
(3/3/2003)

Legends and Stories of Ireland
Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts
Two more texts from the defunct Belinus site. (3/1/2003)

Popular Romances of the West of England
Also added the Celtic Folklore Page. (2/28/2003)

The Devî Gita
The Song of the Goddess. (2/27/2003)

The Prophecies of Paracelsus
Also added the Prophecy and Divination page. (2/21/2003)

Songs of the Russian People (2/20/2003)

The Samoan Story of Creation and
The Lore of the Whare-Wananga
Two new Polynesian texts donated by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris! (2/12/2003)

The Mysteries of Mithra (2/11/2003)

The Babylonian Talmud, Book 1: Tract Sabbath
The Rodkinson Talmud etext is now complete! (2/6/2003)

The Vedanta Sutras with commentary by Ramanuja
This was scanned by S. Sriram, and proofed by him and a cast of thousands at Distributed Proofing. Thanks all! (2/1/2003)

Sadhana, The Realisation of Life
This file was donated by Chetan K. Jain at BharatLiterature. Thanks, Chet! (1/28/2003)

Tales and Maxims from the Midrash

Celtic Folklore, Welsh and Manx (1/23/2002)

Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands
A classic of ethnography by Bronislaw Malinowski. (1/22/2003)

The Story of Grettir the Strong
translated by Eiríkr Magnússon and Willam Morris (1/20/2003)

The Sánkhya Aphorisms of Kapila
Contributed by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris! (1/20/2003)

The Hymns of Orpheus
Translated by Thomas Taylor (1/18/2003).

The Saga of Viga-Glum
Contributed by Beau Salsman from The Northern Way. (1/13/2003)

Isis Unveiled. (1/13/2003)

A Textbook of Theosophy
Contributed by 'Some Dude'. Thanks, Dude! (1/13/2003)

At last, I've added a Theosophy Index (1/13/2003).

Babylonian Talmud, Book 6
One more to go...

Works of Tagore
Thanks to Chetan K. Jain, BharatLiterature for donating these new Tagore files! (1/4/2003)

The New England Primer (12/28/2002)

The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Vol. IV Medieval Hebrew: featuring The Midrash (12/16/2002)

Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides (12/16/2002)

Talmud Book 4
We have now completed 8 of the 10 books from the Rodkinson translation. (12/16/2002)

Ancient Fragments
Contributed by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris! (12/12/2002)

A Dweller on Two Planets
A classic 19th Century account of Atlantis. This is a major addition to the site, over a year in the making. (12/9/2002)

Bunyan
A biography of the author of Pilgrim's Progress, contributed by 'Some Dude'. Thanks, Dude! (12/9/2002)

Myths of Ífè
Scanned by Chris Weimer, thanks Chris! (12/6/2002)

The Seven Tablets of Creation by L.W. King (12/3/2002)

Two Orations of the Emperor Julian (12/1/2002)

The Sun Dance of the Oglala Dakota (11/29/2002)

The Book of Jasher (11/29/2002)

The Book of Abraham, Its Authenticity Established...
'Some Dude' comes through with another Mormon document. Thanks Dude! (11/27/2002)

Irish Witchcraft and Demonology (11/27/2002)

Under the Prophet in Utah
Another etext donated by 'Some Dude'. Thanks Dude! (11/26/2002)

The Goddodin Poems
Prolegomena to the Study of Old Welsh Poetry
A key Welsh text and an article about Welsh bardic poetry. (11/26/2002)

Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions (11/22/2002)

Babylonian Talmud, Book 9 (11/20/2002)

More Sacred Time: Jewish and Mayan dates. (11/17/2002)

Sacred Time, also Planetary Positions (11/16/2002).

Hadith of Bukhari
A very extensive Hadith collection. (11/13/2002)

Phase of the Moon
Islamic Date (11/10/2002)

Friar Bacon: His Discovery of the Miracles Of Art, Nature, And Magick
Contributed by Dr. Alan R. Young, Ph.D.
Thanks, Dr. Young! (11/8/2002)

Tenderfoot Days
Contributed by 'Some Dude'. Thanks, Dude! (11/8/2002)

Works of Ingersoll (vols. 1 and 2) (11/8/2002)

Shakti and Shâkta by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe)
Also, finally set up an index page for Tantra, pending more additions. (11/5/2002)

The Lesser Key of Solomon, by S.L.M. Mathers and Aleister Crowley. (11/4/2002)

The Book of Ceremonial Magic by A.E. Waite (11/3/2002)

Babylonian Talmud, Book 7: Baba Bathra (Last Gate) (10/31/2002)

The Magus, by Francis Barrett (10/23/2002)

Simplified the shopping cart; added new a subsection on Rosicrucianism, including a whole archive of Max Heindel material, and added a subsection in the UFO section about Mars (10/13/2002).

Oahspe
This text has been completely overhauled and reformatted. Several missing pieces were added, as well as all the illustrations. (10/10/2002).

The Shundai Zatsuwa (A Japanese Philosopher)
A text about Japanese Neo-Confucianism, contributed by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris! (10/6/2002)


NOTE: everything below this line made it into the 1.2 version of the CD-ROM. Everything above will be in the next version.

The Golden Verses of Pythagoras (10/2/2002)

Te Pito Te Henua, or Easter Island
The Easter Island Tablets 'translated'. (10/1/2002)

The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (9/22/2002)

Babylonian Talmud, Book 3
Tracts Pesachim, Yomah and Hagiga. (9/20/2002)

Sappho in Unicode
This is a reworking of the Sappho etext with Greek Unicode and a slightly revised introduction. (9/16/2002)

The Kebra Nagast
This is a legendary history of Ethiopia, scanned by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris!
This has been one of the most requested additions to the site. (9/12/2002)

Specimens of Ainu Folk-lore
More great Ainu material, scanned by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris! (9/8/2002)

The History of the Devil by Paul Carus
A massive study of the concept of evil. (9/5/2002)

Babylonian Talmud, Book 5
Tracts Aboth, Derech Eretz-Rabba, Derech Eretz-Zuta, and Baba Kama (First Gate) (8/28/2002)

The Kabbalah Unveiled by S.L.M. Mathers
This is a comprehensive etext of this unique collection of Zohar translations. (8/23/2002)

Aino Folk-Tales
This is the first book at this site relating to the Japanese ethnic minority known as the Ainu.
Thanks to Chris Weimer for contributing this. (8/21/2002)

Added the 'About Unicode' page (8/19/2002)

The Heroic Enthusiasts by Giordano Bruno
(8/17/2002)

Babylonian Talmud, Book 10: The History of the Talmud
This is the introduction to Rodkinsons' Talmud translation. (8/15/2002)

Added some texts about the Samaritans. (8/14/2002)

Legends of the Jews, by Louis Ginzberg
A massive collection of Haggada. (8/11/2002)

Babylonian Talmud, Book 2: Tracts Erubin, Shekalim, Rosh Hashana (8/8/2002)

The Confucian Canon in English and Chinese(8/9/2002)
this is the first Chinese Unicode file at this site.

Grey's Polynesian Mythology (updated)
Additional proofreading, and added an appendix on Maori music which has been left out previously. (8/2/2002)

The Works of Josephus
Added translations of this important source on 1st Century Jewish history (7/30/2002)

Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling by Charles G. Leland (7/29/2002)

Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirqe Aboth)
A short but very profound section of Talmud. (7/25/2002)

Unicode version of the Tanakh
This is the first complete Unicode text at this site.(7/25/2002)

Babylonian Talmud, Book 8.: Tract Sanhedrin: Section Jurisprudence (Damages)
This is the first completed volume of the Rodkinson Talmud translation: more to follow. (7/21/2002)

The Udâna,
a Buddhist text contributed by Chris Weimer. (7/21/2002)

Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition by Charles G. Leland. (7/16/2002)

The Political Aspects of S. Augustine's 'City of God'.
This was contributed by an Anonymous Volunteer. Thanks, Anonymous! (7/15/2002)

Re-edited Aradia, Gospel of the Witches.
This version fixes numerous typos (particularly in the Italian text) and is up to current coding standards. (7/2/2002)

Added the experimental translation feature. (6/30/2002)

The Enclosed Garden of the Truth: A fascinating rare Sufi text. (6/27/2002)

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (6/26/2002)

The Witch Persecutions (6/22/2002)

She-rab Dong-bu (The Tree of Wisdom); a Tibetan text donated thanks to Chris Weimer. (6/21/2002)

Navaho Myths, Prayers and Songs, by Washington Matthews. (6/21/2002)

The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony by Washington Matthews (6/16/2002)

Chris Weimer donated two new early Christian texts. Thanks Chris!
The Book of the Bee
The Book of the Cave of Treasures(6/13/2002)

Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe by Donald A. Mackenzie (6/7/2002)

The Dionysian Artificers (6/4/2002)

Oceanic Mythology by Roland B Dixon (5/28/2002)

Myths of the Miwok (5/24/2002)

The Bhagavadgita (SBE 8) (5/19/2002)

Vinaya Texts (SBE 13) (5/19/2002)
Christ In Islam (5/19/2002)
these two were contributed by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris!

Yin Chih Wen, The Tract of the Quiet Way (5/13/2002)

The Burden of Isis (5/6/2002)

Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity (5/3/2002)

Added a section on Utopias and Dystopias and finished another Donnelly book, Cæsar's Column(5/1/2002)

Finished a long-overdue renovation of the bookshop (4/28/2002).

Egyptian Myth and Legend
The overhaul of the Egyptian section continues...(4/27/2002)

Journal Articles
A collection of 19th Century academic journal articles, mostly about Buddhism, contributed by Chris Weimer. Thanks Chris! (4/26/2002)

Egyptian Magic, by E.A. Wallis Budge (4/24/2002)

Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life, by E.A. Wallis Budge(4/21/2002)

Egil's Saga Thanks to the Northvegr for contributing this text!(4/21/2002)

A massive overhaul of the Bible section has been completed.
This includes verse anchors, systematic cross linking and a sensible file naming convention. (4/19/2002)

Woman, Church and State by Matilda Joslyn Gage. (4/4/2002)

The Dhammapada and Sutta Nipâta (SBE10)
Thanks to Chris Weimer for redoing this important volume.

The Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia; by John G. Withnell
The Aborgines of Western Australia by Albert F. Calvert.
Some new Australian material has turned up. (4/2/2002)

The Institutes of Vishnu
Sacred Books of the East Vol. 7 (3/27/2002)

The Flying Saucers Are Real
...or are they? (3/19/2002)

Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts (SBE 49), also donated by Chris Weimer.

Songs of Kabîr, Translated by Rabindranath Tagore

A new Lafcadio Hearn text, this time about Buddhism:
Gleanings in Buddha-Fields by Lafcadio Hearn

Thanks to Chris Weimer for donating the following text:
Buddhism In Translations

Japan, An Attempt At Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn
In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn

Clothed With The Sun by Anna Kingsford.
A spiritualist masterpiece from the 19th Century with a feminist twist, by a woman who was a key figure in the formation of the Golden Dawn and Theosophy.

Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia
A massive text about Australian Aboriginal culture and traditions

A new Maori text:
Maori Religion and Mythology

A new Sufi text:
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî.

Check out the new Gothic Section

I've located a couple of new Taoist texts.
The first is the Book of Lieh-Tzü. This is a great little book with many classic Taoist tales of magicians. If you've seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and wondered why and how everyone was flying around, this book will shed some light on the subject:

Taoist Teachings Translated from the Book of Lieh-Tzü.

The second is an important Taoist treatise on ethics, the Tai Shang Tractate. This edition has a collection of fables which illustrate Taoist morality.

T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien,
Treatise of the Exalted One on Response and Retribution.

Hawaiian Legends of Old Honolulu
Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes
Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods
Jamaica Anansi Stories
Mystics of Islam
The Sibylline Oracles
Ragnarok, the Age of Fire and Gravel.

Sacred-texts has complete etexts of Tolkiens' source material:
Sources of Lord of the Rings

Updating the Classics Page:
Added Aesop's Fables, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Plato, many other files, including new Latin material...

Got Magick? Check out the Grimoires Page.

I'd like to buy a vowel...:
The Qur'an transliteration has been improved to reflect the original Arabic text more closely (the old version was missing final vowels).
Also, a version of the Tanakh with vowels (the Hebrew Bible). has been added.

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