• This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don’t think it’s a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut
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Book List

A combination of go-to references, standard research volumes, personally influential material, and inspirations. Not necessarily relevant to your work, whatever it might be.

Egyptian Reference

Temple of the Cosmos, Jeremy Naydler

My Heart, My Mother: Death and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt, Alison Roberts

The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs, Jan Assmann (also everything he wrote ever)

Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, Erik Hornung, trans. John Baines

Egyptian Religion, Siegfried Morenz, trans. Ann E. Keep

Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods, Dimitri Meeks, Christine Favard-Meeks, trans. G. M. Goshgarian

The Ancient Gods Speak: A Guide to Egyptian Religion, Donald B. Redford

The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, trans. Faulkner

The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts, trans. Faulkner

The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, trans. Faulkner

Craft Reference

Etheric Anatomy, Victor and Cora Anderson (and other works)

Spiritual Cleansing, Draja Mikaharic

The Faery Teachings, Orion Foxwood

Folkloric And Related Reference

Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages, Claude Lecouteaux (and other works)

Other Religious

Ritual: Power, Healing, and Community, Malidoma Patrice Somé (and other things he wrote!)

Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra, Anne Feldhaus

The United Methodist Hymnal

Nonfiction Reference

One, Two, Three… Infinity, by George Gamow

Mindsteps to the Cosmos, by Gerald S. Hawkins

Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town, Brian Donahue

Three Roads to Awareness, Don Fabun

Fiction

The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams

Hogfather, Terry Pratchett (supplement: Carpe Jugulum, the Tiffany Aching stories, various others)

Cyteen, CJ Cherryh (supplement: Forty Thousand in Gehenna, Wave Without a Shore, Rusalka series, some others)

Paladin of Souls, Lois McMaster Bujold (also The Curse of Chalion, to which it is the sequel, but reasons)

The War God’s Own, David Weber

A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin (also The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed)

Digger, Ursula Vernon

Poetry

Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950, TS Eliot

“pity this busy monster, manunkind“, E. E. Cummings