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  • The Flayed God: The Mesoamerican Mythological Tradition
    The Flayed God: The Mesoamerican Mythological Tradition
    $8.00 | , ,

    Roberta and Peter Markman take us into a fierce and breathtakingly wondrous world of were-jaguars, obsidian butterflies, feathered serpents, snake women, and living skeletons – the world of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Acentric Labyrinth: Giordano Bruno’s Prelude to Contemporary Cosmology
    The Acentric Labyrinth: Giordano Bruno’s Prelude to Contemporary…
    $8.00 | , ,

    A cosmological approach to the controversial philosopher/mystic Giordano Bruno’s ideas. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fritz Graf – Magic in the Ancient World
    Fritz Graf – Magic in the Ancient World
    $8.00 | , ,

    Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route for direct access to the gods, for material gains as well […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything
    Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything
    $8.00 | , ,

    Presents the unifying world-concept long sought by scientists, mystics, and an Integral Theory of Everything Explains how modern science has rediscovered the Akashic Field of perennial philosophy [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning
    The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning
    $15.00 | , ,

    Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts
    Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Co…
    $12.00 | , ,

    Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the “secrets of the universe,” of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this path-breaking [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • At the Edge of the World: Caves and Late Classic Maya World View
    At the Edge of the World: Caves and Late Classic Maya World View
    $10.00 | , ,

    Reconstruction of classic period Maya beliefs about the structure of the universe based on imagery and hieroglyphic texts from lowland cities. Focuses on cosmological meanings of caves in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya
    An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico an…
    $10.00 | , ,

    The myths and beliefs of the great pre-Columbian civilizations of Mesoamerica have baffled and fascinated outsiders ever since the Spanish Conquest. Yet, until now, no single-volume introduction [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • C.J.S Thompson – Alchemy & Alchemists
    C.J.S Thompson – Alchemy & Alchemists
    $18.00 | , ,

    Alchemy, whose beginnings — possibly in Egypt, Babylon, India, or China — are ancient and obscure, remained undocumented until about 2500 BC. Although it may have originated with metallurgy, the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Far Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective
    The Far Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective
    $15.00 | , ,

    Will our universe continue to expand 100 billion years from now? Does human life and all intelligence inevitably come to an end as the universe evolves? Could our present space […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Max Ernst – A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil
    Max Ernst – A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil
    $15.00 | , ,

    In the course of browsing an illustrated book of objects—umbrellas, watches, tools, clothes—artist Max Ernst was struck by the items’ unusual juxtapositions. By manipulating the [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Frithjof Schuon – The Eye of the Heart: Metaphysics, Cosmology, Spiritual Life
    Frithjof Schuon – The Eye of the Heart: Metaphysics, Cosmology, …
    $15.00 | , ,

    Schuon’s perspective is that of the sophia perennis or “perennial wisdom”, which is capable of discerning the spiritual intentions behind religious doctrines, forms, and practices. The [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist
    Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist
    $16.00 | , ,

    Taking a fresh look at the art world of the 1960s, Caroline Jones argues that far from the countercultural stance associated with the decade, the artists she examines—including Stella, Warhol, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joseph Goetz – Primitive and Prehistoric Religions
    Joseph Goetz – Primitive and Prehistoric Religions
    $16.00 | , ,

    Overview of pagan and the religions of early man. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Stones of Adoration: Sacred Stones and Mystic Megaliths of Ireland
    Stones of Adoration: Sacred Stones and Mystic Megaliths of Ireland
    $18.00 | , ,

    Sacred stones and stone monuments feature the world over and Ireland is no exception. Our landscape is dotted with them, from the Blarney Stone in Cork and the Royal Pillars […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Wolfgang Behringer – Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History
    Wolfgang Behringer – Witches and Witch-Hunts: A Global History
    $18.00 | , ,

    In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present. Drawing on the latest historical and anthropological findings, Behringer sheds new light on the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Oya: In Praise of the Goddess
    Oya: In Praise of the Goddess
    $18.00 | , ,

    Explores how the goddess Oya is worshipped by the Yoruba people of Africa and discusses the meaning of Oya for Westerners This book is in Good readable condition. It has […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Diane Purkiss – At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things
    Diane Purkiss – At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of F…
    $20.00 | , ,

    At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde: A History of Cultural Primitivism
    Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde: A History of Cultura…
    $20.00 | , ,

    Avant-garde art between 1910 and 1950 is well known for its use of “primitive” imagery, often borrowed from traditional cultures in Africa and Oceania. Less recognized, however, is [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ: A Gnostic Christian Kabbalah
    Gnosis of the Cosmic Christ: A Gnostic Christian Kabbalah
    $20.00 | , ,

    The noble idea of the Christian Kabbalah is not so much the worship of Jesus Christ, but rather a conscious evolution toward a divine or super-humanity. In this regard, Christian […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Strange Familiar: The Work of Georg Gudni
    Strange Familiar: The Work of Georg Gudni
    $20.00 | , ,

    Georg Gudni has said of his work, inspired by his native Icelandic landscapes, “You go past the materials and into the painting itself.” The transparent, ethereal quality achieved in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910-1925
    Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910-1925
    $20.00 | , ,

    This catalogue accompanies a major exhibition devoted to Vasily Kandinsky. It explores the evolution of his work from the Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus years. During this period, Kandinsky [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Mexican Masks: Their Uses and Symbolism
    Mexican Masks: Their Uses and Symbolism
    $20.00 | , ,

    Describes the techniques of Mexican Indians for making masks and analyzes the symbolism, religious functions, and social uses of these masks This book is in Good readable condition. It has […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Hilary Gatti – Essays on Giordano Bruno
    Hilary Gatti – Essays on Giordano Bruno
    $22.00 | , ,

    This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world’s leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Carl Kerenyi – Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life
    Carl Kerenyi – Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life
    $25.00 | , ,

    No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion
    Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion
    $25.00 | , ,

    This collection challenges the tendency among scholars of ancient Greece to see magical and religious ritual as mutually exclusive and to ignore “magical” practices in Greek religion. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Damien Hirst: New Religion
    Damien Hirst: New Religion
    $25.00 | , ,

    Published in 2006 following Damien Hirst’s first major print exhibition at the Paul Stolper Gallery in London in 2005, New Religion explores Hirst’s central themes: ”I was [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Poems of Ossian and Related Works
    The Poems of Ossian and Related Works
    $25.00 | , ,

    This is the first modern edition of all Macpherson’s Ossianic poetry, including Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Fingal and Temora – as well as his accompanying prefaces and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
    Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
    $40.00 | , ,

    Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient Tribal Art
    Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient Tribal Art
    $40.00 | , ,

    The American art historian, Carl Schuster (1904-1969), discovered a set of patterns designed by ancient peoples to illustrate their ideas about kinship. They tattooed and painted such [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • James Castle: A Retrospective
    James Castle: A Retrospective
    $45.00 | , ,

    James Castle (1899-–1977) never learned to speak, read, or write—and left his native state of Idaho only once—and yet he created a wide range of extraordinary works that resonate with […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Surrealism, Art and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology
    Surrealism, Art and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epi…
    $50.00 | , ,

    During the same period that Surrealism originated and flourished between the wars, great advances were being made in the field of physics. This book offers the first full history, analysis […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • David Goddard – The Tower of Alchemy: An Advanced Guide to the Great Work
    David Goddard – The Tower of Alchemy: An Advanced Guide to the G…
    $75.00 | , ,

    The Tower of Alchemy is the first book published in the West to openly reveal the teachings and practice of the Hermetic Art in plain language. In this advanced manual, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • An Illustrated Map of the Sheela-na-Gigs of Britain and Ireland
    An Illustrated Map of the Sheela-na-Gigs of Britain and Ireland
    $100.00 | , ,

    A comprehensive guide to and map of the Sheela-na-Gig statues, an ancient feminine icon known for an exaggerate vulva, of Great Britain and Ireland. Bandia Publishing, 2009 edition. Large scale [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Alchemy and Mysticism: The Hermetic Museum
    Alchemy and Mysticism: The Hermetic Museum
    $12.00 | , ,

    The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • 2-Eared Music  Tote Bag
    2-Eared Music Tote Bag
    $25.00 | ,

    Large Gusseted Canvas Tote. Perfect for about 30 LP’s or a grocery run. Slogan coined by the geniuses of @crudcountry Printed by our best buddy in the world @woodpeckerprintshop  

  • Brouwer/ Prudencio ‎– Las Vertientes Culturales
    Brouwer/ Prudencio ‎– Las Vertientes Culturales
    $125.00 | ,

    VG+/VG+ Label: Tacuabé – T/E 14 Series: Música Nueva Latinoamericana – 8 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition Country: Uruguay Released: 1981  

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Jean-Pierre Vernant – Myth And Thought Among The Greeks
    Jean-Pierre Vernant – Myth And Thought Among The Greeks
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Myth and Thought among the Greeks is Jean-Pierre Vernant’s magisterial first entry upon the scene of classical studies. As fresh and challenging as it was when first published in 1965, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Interrogation Machine: Laibach And NSK
    Interrogation Machine: Laibach And NSK
    $40.00 | , ,

    The first English-language study of NSK—one of the contemporary art world’s most radical forces—with particular focus on the performances and productions of NSK’s musical and [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction
  • Corinne Boyer – Be Banished, Prince of Darkness
    Corinne Boyer – Be Banished, Prince of Darkness
    $48.00 | ,

    The use of sacred herbs for driving away evil spirits is as old as the written record, and common to pre-Christian religions in Europe. Cleansing and cathartic plants formed the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • And Also The Trees – The Klaxon
    And Also The Trees – The Klaxon
    $10.00 | , ,

    “The Klaxon kicks off with a spindly, spry, though still downbeat tight groove for a jazzy, late-evening number, “Sickness Divine,” with Simon Jones singing the line [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Coil ‎– Queens Of The Circulating Library
    Coil ‎– Queens Of The Circulating Library
    $30.00 | , ,

    Part one of “a continually mutating series of circulating musickal compositions”. Initially limited to 2000 copies in a clear grey clamshell case, sold at Coil’s live [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Coil ‎– Winter Solstice
    Coil ‎– Winter Solstice
    $20.00 | , ,

    The fourth in a series of limited edition Equinox/Solstice releases, it was supposed to be issued on Winter Solstice, 1998 but was delayed until January, 1999. Label: Eskaton – Eskaton […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Current 93 ‎– Earth Covers Earth
    Current 93 ‎– Earth Covers Earth
    $35.00 | , ,

    “Earth Covers Earth was the first Current 93 album I obsessed over. I acquired it not long after I found a copy of Emblems for $2.89 in a bargain bin […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Current 93 ‎– Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow
    Current 93 ‎– Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow
    $30.00 | , ,

    To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Current 93 / HÖH* – Island
    Current 93 / HÖH* – Island
    $30.00 | , ,

    Current 93’s “Iceland” album, featuring Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Bjork Label: Durtro – DURTRO 006 CD Format: CD, Album, Repress Country: UK Released: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Death In June & Boyd Rice ‎– Alarm Agents
    Death In June & Boyd Rice ‎– Alarm Agents
    $30.00 | , ,

    Recorded between Halloween, October 2002 and Mid-Winter’s Night, December 2003 Label: New European Recordings – BAD VCCD48 Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 2004 VG+/VG+ *Image in [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Der Blutharsch ‎– Live At The Monastery
    Der Blutharsch ‎– Live At The Monastery
    $8.00 | , ,

    Live recording of the acoustic concert at The Monastery in Vienna, 1st May 2005. Label: WKN – WKN 24 Format: CD, Album Country: Austria Released: 2005 VG+/VG+ *Image in listing […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Desiderii Marginis – Songs Over Ruins
    Desiderii Marginis – Songs Over Ruins
    $15.00 | , ,

    ‘Desiderii Marginis have created the soundtrack to the post-apocalyptic world. Taking the approach of Ordo Equilibrio and Raison D’etre, there is melody and tension created purely by [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Kate Bush ‎– The Other Sides
    Kate Bush ‎– The Other Sides
    $110.00 | , ,

    Compiles B-sides, covers, & alternate mixes from throughout Kate Bush’s career. Previously released as part of Kate Bush – Remastered Part II. Label: Fish People – 0190295568887 [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop