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Cults -- Greece

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• Cults
• Greece

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• Delphian oracle
• Dionysia
• Eleusinian mysteries
• Oracles, Greek

• Die Griechischen Kultusaltertümer (third edition, in German; Munich: C. H. Beck, 1920), by Paul Stengel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kantharos: Studies in Dionysiac and Kindred Cult (Princeton: Princeton University Press; et al., 1924), by G. W. Elderkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lakonische Kulte (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1893), by Sam Wide (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opferbräuche der Griechen (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: Teubner, 1910), by Paul Stengel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Griechischen Sakralaltertümer; und Das Bühnenwesen der Griechen und Römer (in German; Munich: C. H. Beck, 1890), by Paul Stengel and Frank Oehmichen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons, by Florence Bennett Anderson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Greek Altars, Origins and Typology, Including the Minoan-Mycenaean Offertory Apparatus: An Archaeological Study in the History of Religion (St. Louis, MO: Saint Louis University Press, 1949), by Constantine G. Yavis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Éphèse et Claros: Recherches sur les Sanctuaires et les Cultes de l'Ionie du Nord (in French; Paris: E. de Boccard, 1922), by Charles Picard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult, by Deborah J. Lyons (HTML at Princeton)
• Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, by Jane Ellen Harrison (page images at Chicago)

• Bacchae, by Euripides, trans. by Theodore Alois Buckley (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Bacchae, by Euripides, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Bacchae, by Euripides, trans. by Gilbert Murray (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Bacchantes, by Euripides, trans. by Edward P. Coleridge (HTML at Wikisource)

• De Anaxandrida Polemone Hegesandro Rerum Delphicarum Scriptoribus (in Latin with extensive Greek quotations; 1865), by Ludwig Weniger (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries (4th edition; New York: J.W. Bouton, [1891]), by Thomas Taylor, ed. by Alexander Wilder (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Hymns of Orpheus, Translated from the Original Greek, With a Preliminary Dissertation on the Life and Theology of Orpheus, by Thomas Taylor (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries (4th edition; New York: J.W. Bouton, [1891]), by Thomas Taylor, ed. by Alexander Wilder (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites (London and Denver: Theosophical Pub. House, 1919), by Dudley Wright (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• On the Mysteries, by Andocides (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

• The Sibylline Oracles, Books III-V (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1918), trans. by H. N. Bate (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sibylline Oracles, Translated from the Greek into English Blank Verse, trans. by Milton Spenser Terry (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Stripping the Gurus: Sex, Violence, Abuse and Enlightenment, by Geoffrey D. Falk (HTML and PDF with commentary at strippingthegurus.com)
• Understanding Cults and New Religions, by Irving Hexham and Karla O. Poewe (HTML at University of Calgary)
• Strange Sects and Curious Cults (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961), by Marcus Bach (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le Rituel du Culte Divin Journalier en Égypte; d'Après les Papyrus de Berlin et les Textes du Temple de Séti 1er, à Abydos (Annales du Musée Guimet Bibliothèque d'Études #14, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1902), by Alexandre Moret
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • bound with succeeding volume in the series; multiple formats at archive.org

• Solomon's Vineyard, by Jonathan Latimer (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Messiah (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1954), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)

• International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation (2020-) (full serial archives)
• International Journal of Cultic Studies (2010-2019) (full serial archives)

• Recovery From Abusive Groups (Bonita, FL: International Cultic Studies Association, c1993), by Wendy Ford (PDF at Google Drive)

• The Divinity of the Roman Emperor (Philological monographs #1; Middletown, CT: American Philological Association, 1931), by Lily Ross Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taboo, Magic, Spirits: A Study of Primitive Elements in Roman Religion (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Eli Edward Burriss (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Religious Experience of the Roman People, From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus (London: Macmillan, 1922), by W. Warde Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult, by Mark E. Laxer (Gutenberg text)

• Something About Obeah (Kingston: M. C. DeSouza, 1891), by Herbert T. Thomas
  • page images at dloc.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Lewis Bayles Paton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Religion of the Chinese (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1910), by J. J. M. de Groot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Coping With Cult Involvement: A Handbook for Families and Friends (second edition, c2000), by Livia Bardin (PDF at Google Drive)

• The Book of Idols, by -819? Ibn al-Kalbi, ed. by Nabih Amin Faris (HTML at answering-islam.org)

• Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1916), by Lewis Spence, illust. by Evelyn Paul (Gutenberg text)

• Oahspe: A Kosmon Bible in the Words of Jehovih and His Angel Embassadors (some text missing from this transcription can be found in the online second edition; this text is the third edition; London: The Kosmon Press, 1912), by John Ballou Newbrough (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Oahspe: A New Bible in the Words of Jehovih and His Angel Embassadors (second edition; Boston and London: Oahspe Publishing Association, 1891), by John Ballou Newbrough (multiple formats at Google; US access only)

• The Philosophic Basis of Ordinances, by C. H. Forney (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Last Word (Shawneetown, IL: The author, c1935), by Thomas Sawyer Spivey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1900), by G. R. S. Mead (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (second edition; London and Varanasi: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), by G. R. S. Mead (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Frammenti di una Fede Dimenticata: Brevi Studi Sugli Gnostici, Principalment dei Primi due Secoli, Contributo allo Studio delle Origini Cristiane, Basato su Materiali più Recentemente Ricuperati (Italian translation of the second edition of "Fragments of a Faith Forgotten"; 1909), by G. R. S. Mead, trans. by M. L. Kirby and B. Fantoni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gnostic and Historic Christianity, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
• The Gnostics and Their Remains, Ancient and Mediaeval (second edition; London: David Nutt, 1887), by C. W. King (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Miscellany (London: J. M. Watkins, 1921), ed. by G. R. S. Mead (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Thrice-Greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis (attributed, probably spuriously, to Hermes Trismegistus; 3 volumes; London and Varanasi: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1906), ed. by G. R. S. Mead, contrib. by Hermes Trismegistus
  • all 3 volumes: HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all 3 volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Libros Quinque Adversus Haereses (2 volumes in Greek and Latin with English commentary; Cambridge, UK: Typis Academicis, 1857), by Saint Irenaeus, ed. by W. Wigan Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paul the Gnostic Opponent of Peter, Not an Apostle of Historic Christianity, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
• Perfect Matrimony (English translation), by Samael Aun Weor (HTML with commentary at glorian.org)

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