5 Top mythology books like The Cult of the Black Virgin by Ean Begg

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The Cult of the Black Virgin

By: Ean Begg

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A comprehensive gazetteer enables the reader to locate the sites where Black Virgins can be found a…

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1. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

By: Riane Eisler

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The legacy of the sacred feminine. The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural … read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • mythology
"[If we pursue] a positive economic future...this will entail facing up to the fact that our 'masculine' militarism is the most energy-intensive entropic activity of humans, since it converts stored e…"

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

"Both the mythical and archaeological evidence indicate that perhaps the most notable quality of the pre-dominator mind was its recognition of our oneness with all of nature,which lies at the heart of…"

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

"When we look closely, not only at what Jesus taught but at how he went about disseminating his message, time and again we find that what he was preaching was the gospel of a partnership society. He r…"

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

"It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have evolved: the domestication of plants and animals. In fact…"

-Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)

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2. Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.37

Format: 608 pages, ebook

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major tel… read more

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"So,"

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"I’m really wishing Titan were still on that list of options."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"The real sign you were getting old was when you stopped needing to prove you weren’t getting old."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

"History was a cycle. Everything that had happened before, all the way back through the generations, would happen again."

-James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

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3. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

By: Arthur Machen

3.69

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more

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  • mythology
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

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4. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • spirituality
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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5. The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1)

By: James Redfield

4.50

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The Celestine Prophecycontains secrets that are currently changing our world. Drawing on ancient wi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • spirituality
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6. Living Buddha, Living Christ

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

When you are a truly happy Christian, you are also a Buddhist. And vice versa." -- Thich Nhat Hanh … read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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7. Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth … read more

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8. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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9. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more

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10. At the Mountains of Madness

By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more

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11. A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more

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12. When God Was a Woman

By: Merlin Stone

3.52

Format: 257 pages,

Here, archaeologically documented, is the story of the religion of the Goddess. Known by many names… read more

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13. Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series The gates have ope… read more

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14. Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for televi… read more

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15. The Rats in the Walls

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Written in August-September 1923, it wa… read more

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16. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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17. The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image

By: Laurens van der Post , Anne Baring , Jules Cashford

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, a… read more

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18. How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation

By: Rudolf Steiner , Christopher Bamford , None , None

0.00

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

In this classic account of the Western esoteric path of initiation, Steiner leads the student from … read more

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19. The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

By: Richard Rohr , None

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Invitation to a Dance The Trinity is supposed to be the central, foundational doctrine of our entir… read more

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20. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.00

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more

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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

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21. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more

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  • historical
  • feminism
  • history
  • nonfiction
"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

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22. Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.57

Format: 534 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its i… read more

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"Chapter Fourteen: Teresa “So not unnatural at all,"

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"Chapter Fourteen: Teresa “Your dad’s kind of an asshole,"

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"Chapter Nineteen: Elvi We just lost two gates, Admiral. And one of them had an entire world filled with people behind it."

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

"I want this war over with, and a real peace established. The kind where people can be angry with each other and hate each other and no one has to die over it. That’d be enough."

-James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

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23. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

By: Suzanne Simard

4.22

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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24. The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

By: Marion Zimmer Bradley

4.13

Format: 1009 pages, Kindle Edition

Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women w… read more

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  • historical
  • mythology
"All gods are one god."

-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

"Love is the only prayer I know."

-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

"They have not forgotten the Mysteries,"

-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

"And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin"

-Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)

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25. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

By: Ram V.

4.30

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality, which means the avatar of Death is out of a jo… read more

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  • mythology
"Perhaps it is enough to remember at story's end the miracle that it was simply to have lived."

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

"If life's an exercise in making memories...no one really goes away as long as they are remembered."

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

"It’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after."

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

"And in the days that follow, the possibilities of what could've been begin to fall away. Leaving you with less, each time-- more precious, to be savored. Like a cigarette. The point of life, my frien…"

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

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26. Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World

By: Perdita Finn

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Renowned spiritual teacher and co-founder of The Way of the Rose Perdita Finn teaches the art and h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • spirituality
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27. The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary

By: Clark Strand

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the … read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"In the beginning was the Word,' says the Gospel of John. But the truth is, words came later. In the beginning was the rose."

-Clark Strand, The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary

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28. American Brujeria: Modern Mexican American Folk Magic

By: J. Allen Cross

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A practical, hands-on guide to Mexican-American folk magic.   American Brujeria  is about the fasci… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
  • spirituality
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29. Waking Up to the Dark: The Black Madonna's Gospel for An Age of Extinction and Collapse

By: Clark Strand

3.84

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

2023 IPPY Bronze Award Winner | New Age/Mind, Body, Spirit Hidden in the darkness is an ancient sec… read more

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  • feminism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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30. The Cult of the Black Virgin

By: Ean Begg

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A comprehensive gazetteer enables the reader to locate the sites where Black Virgins can be found a… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • feminism
  • esoterica
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • folklore
  • mythology

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Riane Eisler

4.18

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Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Mona Chollet

4.10

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4.33

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4.24

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Eckhart Tolle

4.25

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3.91

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