A Pagan Library for the San Francisco Bay Area
Adapted from a mosaic near the Fort of Qaitbay, Alexandria, Egypt.

Topics Outline

COLLAPSE ALL
    1. Libraries
    1. Indigenous Peoples
      1. Shamanism
      2. Australia & the Pacific
      3. North America
        1. California & Pacific Northwest
        2. Native North American Crafts
      4. Mexico & Central America
        1. arqueologia Mexicana
          1. editiones especial
        2. Codices
        3. Maya
          1. Tzolk’in
          2. Mayan Language
          3. Popol Vuh
      5. South America
        1. Inca & the Andes
    1. Africa
      1. Afro-Diasporic Religions
        1. Voodoo / Vodoun
        2. Candomble / Umbanda / Macumba
        3. Santeria
        4. Hoodoo & Rootwork
    1. Speculative Shamanism
      1. Castaneda
      2. Max Freedom Long
      3. Rampa
    1. Prehistory
      1. Human Genetic History
      2. Prehistoric Art
      3. Göbekli Tepe
      4. Earth Mysteries & Archaeo-Astronomy
        1. Earthworks & Environmental Art
        2. Sacred Geometry & Architecture
          1. Gardens and Landscapes
          2. Golden Ratio
          3. Mazes & Labyrinths
        3. Dowsing
        4. Ley Lines
        5. Crop Circles
        6. John Michell
        7. Megaliths & Megalithic Sites
    1. Europe
      1. European Prehistory
      2. Celtic Studies
        1. Celtic Myth & Deities
        2. Celtic Art
        3. Celtic Archaeology
        4. Druids & Ogham
        5. Modern Celtic Spirituality
          1. Celtic Twilight
      3. British Isles
        1. Great Britain
          1. Prehistoric Britain
            1. Stonehenge & Avebury
          2. Roman Britain
          3. Dark & Middle Ages
            1. Domesday Book
          4. Arthurian Material
            1. Holy Grail
          5. British Royal Family
          6. British Folklore
            1. British Occult Sites
              1. Occult London
            2. Fairies
          7. England
            1. English Place Names
          8. Wales
            1. Welsh Place Names
            2. Mabinogion
          9. Scotland
            1. Picts
            2. Jacobites
            3. Scottish Gaelic
            4. Scottish Folklore
          10. Cornwall
        2. Ireland
          1. Skellig Michael
          2. Irish Gaelic
          3. Irish Folklore
    1. Archaeology
    1. Ancient Mediterranean & Fertile Crescent
      1. Journal of Near Eastern Studies
      2. Crete
        1. Cretan Sites
      3. Turkey
        1. Hittites
        2. Turkey Site Guides
        3. Istanbul
        4. Ephesus
        5. Cappadocia
          1. Urfa
      4. Nabataeans & Syriac
      5. Mesopotamia
        1. Sumer
        2. Mesopotamian Languages
          1. Akkadian
          2. Gilgamesh
          3. Maqlu Texts
      6. Persia & Zoroastrianism
      7. Egypt
        1. Egyptology
          1. Egypt Festschrifts
          2. Egyptology Journals
            1. ARCE Journals
        2. Egyptian Architecture
          1. Egyptian Temples
            1. Agyptologische Tempeltagung
        3. Egypt Sites
          1. Alexandria
          2. Cairo
            1. Cairo Museum
          3. Pyramids
          4. Abusir
          5. Saqqara
          6. Tebtunis
          7. Hibis
          8. Athribis
          9. Abydos
          10. Dendera
          11. Thebes
            1. Karnak
            2. West Bank
              1. Valley of the Kings
                1. Tutankhamun
              2. Deir el-Medina
          12. Esna
          13. El Kab
          14. Edfu
          15. Kom Ombo
          16. Philae
          17. Upper Nile
        4. Pharaohs and Governance
          1. Cleopatra
          2. Hatshepsut
          3. Akhenaten and Amarna Heresy
        5. Egyptian Religion
          1. Egyptian Myths and Deities
          2. Egyptian Astronomy
          3. Modern Kemeticism
          4. Lexikon der agyptischen Gotter…
          5. Mummies and the Afterlife
            1. Books of the Afterlife
              1. Pyramid Texts
              2. Coffin Texts
              3. Books of the Dead
        6. Egyptian Language
          1. Decipherment of Hieroglyphics
          2. How to Read Egyptian
          3. Egyptian Grammar
            1. Egyptian Dictionaries
              1. Hannig-Lexica
              2. Worterbuch
          4. Lingua Aegyptia
            1. Lingua Aegyptia Studia Monographica
          5. Egyptian Literature
        7. Egyptian Arts and Crafts
        8. Egyptian Medicine
        9. Egyptian Natural History
        10. Coptic Egypt
          1. Coptic Language
            1. Coptic Dictionaries
        11. Arabic Language
          1. Egyptian Arabic
        12. Travelers in Egypt
        13. Orientalism and Egyptomania
          1. Egyptian Themed Literature
            1. Stargate SG-1
        14. Speculative Egyptology
        15. Ancient Egyptian Magic
          1. Egyptian Demonology
      8. Ancient Mediterranean Magic
        1. Oracles & Omens
        2. Hermetica
        3. PGM
        4. Hekate and Chaldaean Oracles
        5. Theurgy
      9. Late Antiquity
        1. Pagans and Christians
        2. Byzantium
      10. Gnosticism & Non-Canonical Texts
        1. Cathars & Manichees
        2. The Gnostic
        3. Dead Sea Scrolls
        4. Nag Hammadi Library
      11. Classics
        1. Thomas Taylor Series
      12. Graeco-Roman World
        1. Women in Graeco-Roman World
        2. Etruscans
        3. Graeco-Roman Site Guides
          1. Greece Site Guides
          2. Roman World Site Guides
            1. Pompeii & Herculaneum
            2. Rome
        4. Graeco-Roman Architecture
        5. Graeco-Roman Philosophy
          1. Graeco-Roman Philosophy Journals
            1. Alexandria
          2. Neoplatonism
        6. Graeco-Roman Religions
          1. Greek Cults
            1. Eleusis
            2. Dionysos
          2. Roman Cults
            1. Mithraism
            2. Cybele & Magna Mater
          3. Modern Graeco-Roman Spirituality
        7. Graeco-Roman Mythology
        8. Classical Languages
          1. Greek (Language)
          2. Latin (Language)
      13. Norse & Germanic Studies
        1. Vikings
        2. Sagas
        3. Anglo-Saxons
        4. Modern Heathenry
        5. Runes
        6. Hex Signs & Pow-Wow
      14. Russian & Slavic Studies
      15. Roma / Travelers
    1. Paganism
      1. Neopaganism
        1. Neopagan Studies
      2. Goddess Religion
      3. Gods
    1. Witchcraft
      1. Witch-hunting
        1. Salem Witch Trials
        2. Witch-hunting Manuals
      2. Ethnic Witchcraft
      3. Pop Culture Witchcraft
      4. Wicca & Modern Witchcraft
        1. Traditional British Witchcraft
        2. Wiccan & Pagan Holidays
          1. Llewellyn Sabbats
        3. Kitchen Witchery
        4. Wiccan & Pagan Families
          1. Children’s Nonfiction
        5. Witchcraft Studies
          1. Witchcraft & Magic in Europe
    1. Ritual Magic & Alchemy
      1. Abraxas
      2. Clavis
      3. History of Magic
        1. Thorndike/Columbia History of Magic & Exp. Science
        2. Kircher
        3. Frances Yates
      4. Alchemy
        1. Paracelsus
      5. Grimoires & Ritual Manuals
        1. Picatrix
        2. Svartkonstboker
        3. Encyclopaedia Goetica
        4. Ficino c. 1475
        5. Agrippa c. 1500
        6. Bruno c. 1575
        7. Dee c. 1575
          1. Enochian
        8. Levi
        9. Fortune
        10. Dennis Wheatley Library
        11. New Grimoires
          1. Spell Books
            1. Candle Magic
      6. Magical Practice
        1. Paths to Inner Power
        2. Meditation
          1. Trance Work
          2. Dreams & Dream Work
      7. Magical Tools & Temples
        1. Correspondences
        2. Stones & Jewels
        3. Talismans
        4. Performance Arts
        5. Magical Languages
          1. Codes & Ciphers
            1. Voynich Manuscript
          2. Symbols
    1. Herbalism
      1. Medical Herbalism
        1. Homeopathy & Bach Flowers
      2. Magical Herbalism
        1. Incenses & Oils
      3. Ethnobotany
        1. Chinese Herbalism
      4. Drugs & Entheogens
    1. Healing Arts
    1. Sacred & Magical Sexuality
      1. Reich & Orgone
    1. Divination
      1. Prophecy
      2. Scrying
      3. Palmistry
      4. Numerology
      5. Tarot
        1. Crowley / Thoth Tarot
      6. Geomancy
      7. Feng Shui
      8. I Ching
      9. Astrology
        1. Historical Astrology
        2. Astrological Magic
        3. Chinese Astrology
        4. Calendars
        5. Astronomy
    1. Qabala
      1. William Gray
    1. Magical Orders & Secret Societies
      1. Rosicrucians
        1. Clymer
        2. A.M.O.R.C.
      2. Anthroposophy
      3. Illuminati
      4. Freemasonry
        1. Hellfire Club
      5. Gurdjieff
        1. Ouspensky
      6. Theosophy
        1. Alice Bailey
      7. Nazi Occultism
        1. Speculative Nazi Occult Studies
      8. Satan & Satanism
        1. Church of Satan
        2. Occult Crime
          1. Jack the Ripper
          2. Satanic Hysteria
            1. Counter Satanic Hysteria
      9. Chaos Magic
        1. PL Wilson
        2. AO Spare
        3. Kenneth Grant
        4. Lovecraft & the Cthulhu Mythos
      10. Golden Dawn
      11. OTO
        1. Crowley
        2. Regardie
      12. Knights Templar
        1. Speculative Templar Studies
          1. Baphomet
          2. Rennes-le-Chateau
          3. DaVinci Code
    1. Religious Artifacts
      1. Jerusalem & the Temple
    1. Treasure Hunting
      1. Oak Island
    1. Speculative Archaeology
      1. Psychic Archaeology
      2. Subterranean Mysteries
      3. Sea Mysteries
        1. Atlantis & Lemuria
    1. General Occult
      1. Dark Lore
      2. Secrets & Rumors
      3. Urban Legends
      4. Fortean Travel Guides
      5. Stage Magic
    1. Weird / Speculative Science
      1. Synchronicity
      2. UFOs
        1. Roswell
        2. Extraterrestrial Life
    1. Cryptozoology
      1. Bigfoot
        1. Wood Knocks
      2. Loch Ness & Water Monsters
    1. Magical Creatures
      1. Vampires
      2. Angels & Demons
        1. Demonic Possession & Exorcism
      3. Ghosts & Hauntings
    1. Mediumship
      1. Kardec
      2. Spiritualism
      3. Channeled Entities & Teachings
    1. Parapsychology & Psychic Phenomena
      1. Psychic Development
      2. Auras & Chakras
      3. Astral Projection
      4. Reincarnation
    1. Consciousness Studies
      1. Jung & Jungian Psychology
      2. Ken Wilber
    1. Gender Studies
      1. Women’s Studies
        1. Feminist Theory
        2. Women’s Spirituality
      2. Men’s Studies
        1. Men’s Spirituality
      3. LGBTQ+ Studies
    1. Environmentalism
      1. John Muir
      2. Ecology and Natural History
      3. Ecophilosophy
      4. Sustainability & Survival
      5. Green Politics
    1. New Science
    1. Peace & Conflict Resolution
    1. Politics & the Law
    1. Adversarial Books
      1. Christians against Cults
      2. Christians against the Occult
      3. Christians against Scientism
      4. Creationists against Evolution
      5. Religion against Atheism
      6. Scientists against Creationism
      7. Skeptics against Occultism
      8. Skeptics against Religion
    1. Philosophy
    1. Interfaith
      1. PWR
      2. URI
    1. Spirituality
    1. Comparative & Western Religion
      1. Religion in America
      2. Counterculture
        1. Timothy Leary
        2. Ram Dass
      3. New Religious Movements
        1. Utopian Communities
          1. Findhorn
      4. Studies of Religion
      5. Mysticism
        1. Swedenborg
        2. Classics of Western Spirituality
    1. Abrahamic Religions
      1. Judaism
      2. Christianity
        1. Bibles
        2. Christian Reference Works
        3. Orthodox Christianity
        4. Catholicism
        5. Mormonism
      3. General Islam
      4. Qur’an
        1. Muhammad
        2. Hadith
        3. Qur’anic Studies
      5. Islamic Reference Works
      6. Islam
        1. Islamic Sacred Geometry
        2. Makkah & the Hajj
          1. Dome of the Rock
      7. Revisionist Islamic Studies
      8. Islamicate Occultism
        1. Ikhwan al-Safa
        2. Islamicate Grimoires
          1. Djinn
      9. Arabian Nights
      10. Sufism
        1. Idries Shah
      11. Ismailis
        1. Suhrawardi & the Illuminists
      12. Sabians
        1. Mandaeans
    1. Central Asia & Silk Road
      1. MENA Ethnographies
      2. Baha’is
      3. Yezidism
    1. Eastern Religions
      1. India
        1. Indian Religions
        2. Indian Scriptures
        3. Yoga
          1. Sri Aurobindo / Integral Yoga
        4. Tantra
        5. Hinduism
          1. Hindu Goddesses
        6. Buddhism
          1. Sutras
      2. Tibet
        1. Tibetan Religion
          1. Vajrayana Buddhism
            1. Tibetan Books of the Dead
            2. Women & Dakinis
      3. China
        1. Chinese Religions
          1. Confucianism
          2. Taoism
      4. Japan
        1. Japanese Martial Arts
        2. Japanese Religions
          1. Shinto
          2. Japanese Buddhism
            1. Zen Gardens
            2. Alan Watts
    1. Reference
    1. Fiction
      1. Poetry
      2. Literary Criticism
        1. Tolkien
      3. Children’s Fiction
    1. Biography
    1. Art
      1. Film and Popular Culture
        1. Folk Horror
          1. Wicker Man
          2. Blair Witch Project
    1. History
      1. Culinary History
      2. Military History
        1. Military in Antiquity
          1. Roman Military
          2. Medieval Military
            1. Heraldry
            2. Crusades & Orders Militant
          3. Pirates
      3. Game Studies
        1. Stafford
    1. Anthropology
      1. Linguistics
        1. Semiotics
        2. Information Studies
        3. Alphabets & Decipherment
      2. Costume
      3. Folklore
        1. Household Spirits
        2. Animal Folklore
          1. Feline Folklore
          2. Masks & Guising
        3. Rites of Passage
          1. Death & Dying
    1. Mythology
      1. Joseph Campbell
      2. Legendary Past
      3. Golden Bough
      4. Myths Retold for Children
    1. ALSO…
    1. Wooden Books
    1. Booklets & Pamphlets
    1. Periodicals Room
    1. Special Collections Room

Footnotes

  1. Mexico is geographically part of North America, but is culturally allied with Central America (aka Meso-America). This subject includes: Aztecs, Zapotecs, Mixtecs, Olmecs, Toltecs, Mazotecs, Curanderia, Brujeria, Santa Muerte, Nahuatl, Nahua, Huichoionl, Uto-Aztecan. ↩
  2. Be sure to check Childrens’ Fiction. ↩
  3. There are also books in Speculative Archaeology, where this is a popular topic. ↩
  4. Be sure to check Myths Retold for Children. ↩
  5. Some Festchrifts have the Honoree’s name on the spine and some have the Editor’s name. If both are present, shelved under Editor’s name ↩
  6. The overlap between books on the Giza Plateau and books on Pyramids in general is significant! Both always include the Great Pyramid. ↩
  7. See also Akhenaten and Amarna Heresy. ↩
  8. A “catch-all” for books that don’t fit neatly in other related Sections. ↩
  9. This includes many “Books” of which there aren’t enough books to make a separate section. ↩
  10. Also see Alphabets & Decipherment. ↩
  11. Also books critical of Speculative Egyptology. ↩
  12. Also check subjects below: Egyptian Demonology, Ancient Mediterranean Magic (gen.), Oracles and Omens, Hermetica, and PGM. ↩
  13. All these Magic sections include works by modern practitioners that might be considered “speculative”. See also Historical Astrology. ↩
  14. Note:
    1. The first two tags will read either “Classics, Anthology” or “Classics, (classical author’s name)”.
    2. Anthologies are shelved first, followed by the individual authors.
    3. Works by authors are followed by studies of that author. So, Pythagorean studies follow Pythagoras, Orphism follows Orpheus, etc. ↩
  15. Note: “Orphism” is in Classics after “Orpheus”. ↩
  16. Be sure to check Myths Retold for Children. ↩
  17. Formerly Gothic Witchcraft. ↩
  18. Grimoires alpha by putative author (or by title, if not attributed to a named author), e.g. Abra-Melin, Albertus Magnus, al-Majriti, Arbatel, Armadel, Black Pullet, Honorius, Moses, Raphael, Rudd, Solomon, Voynich, etc. followed by Anthologies (e.g. Barrett, Waite) & books on Grimoires. Modern editor, translator, etc. should be entered as secondary author, editor, translator, etc. ↩
  19. Decipherment of ancient scripts is in Alphabets & Decipherment. ↩
  20. These are (for the most part) historically sound studies of Nazi Occultism and original sources from the period the Nazi Party was active in pre-War and WWII Germany, as opposed to... ↩
  21. Largely modern, speculative, sometimes overly enthusiastic “studies” of what the Nazis were up to, including Hitler survival accounts, Nazi Flying Saucers, Antarctic bases, the Spear of Destiny, etc. (Also, studies of the same and RPG material.) ↩
  22. Texts intended as non-fiction, incl. the Necronomicon & related faux grimoires). ↩
  23. Ark of the Covenant may be here or the next section. ↩
  24. Be sure to check Dome of the Rock. ↩
  25. This is the section for books that include many various “occult” subjects in one book: Monsters, UFOs, Divination, Curses, Missing People, Lost Continents, Ancient Monuments, Speculative Archaeology, Cults, Reincarnation, Ghosts, Parapsychology, etc. ↩
  26. Women’s Spirituality books focused primarily on Goddesses are in Goddess Religion. ↩
  27. In general, Arabic “last names” beginning with Abd (“slave of…”), Abu (“father of…”), or Ibn (“son of…”, incl. Bin & Ben), are alphabetized on the shelf by this word. Last names beginning with article al- or el- (“the…”) are alphabetized on the shelf by the word following. So Ibn Wahshiyah would be shelved under I for “Ibn” while al-Mubarak would be shelved under M for “Mubarak”. However, not all book covers have this correctly, so don’t assume it’s always been entered into our database correctly. In other words, try every possible combination. ↩
  28. Be sure to check Jerusalem & the Temple. ↩
  29. See also Children’s Fiction, Myths Retold for Children, and Egyptian Themed Literature. ↩
  30. Biographies have “Biography, (Subject)” as tags. ↩
  31. I.e. some military books may be shelved by their culture, e.g. Egyptians, Mongols, Picts, Vikings, Jacobites etc. ↩

Last updated October 5, 2023