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Recommended Reading
Although no books have yet been published specifically about the Minoan Brotherhood, and the inner teachings of the tradition remain oathbound and veiled in mystery, many books touch upon related themes or have served as inspiration for the tradition. The following reading list explores subjects such as witchcraft, paganism, male spirituality, sacred Eros, Greek mythology, and the ancient Minoan civilization. These works may help provide a broader cultural, historical, and spiritual context for those interested in the tradition.
Books on Wicca and Paganism
Margot Adler – Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today (1979)
Eddie Buczynski – Witchcraft Fact Book (1984)
Arthur Scott Evans – Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture (1978)
Michael Thomas Ford – The Path of the Green Man: Gay Men, Wicca, and Living a Magical Life (2005)
Michael G. Lloyd – Bull of Heaven: The Mythic Life of Eddie Buczynski and the Rise of the New York Pagan (2012)
Male Spirituality and the Sacred Masculine
Robert Bly – Iron John (1990)
Jean Shinoda Bolen – Gods in Every Man (1989)
Arie Boomsma & Stephan Sanders – De Man en zijn Lichaam (2010)
Joseph Campbell – The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
Mantak Chia & Douglas Abrams – The Multi-Orgasmic Man (1996)
Alain Daniélou – The Phallus: Sacred Symbol of Male Creative Power (1993)
Dagonet Dewr – Sacred Paths for Modern Men (2007)
Mark Emme – In Your Hands: The Everyman's Guide to Masturbation (1990)
Matthew Fox – The Hidden Spirituality of Men (2008)
Bruce P. Grether – The Secret of the Golden Phallus (2012)
Bruce P. Grether – Nine Golden Keys to Mindful Masturbation (2014)
Ton van der Kroon – De Terugkeer van de Koning (1996, revised edition 2012)
Johan Mattelaer – The Phallus: Worship, Decoration, and Mutilation (2011)
Desmond Morris – The Naked Man (2008)
Michaela Riedl & Jürgen Becker – Discover the Secrets of Male Sexuality: Lingam Massage (2008)
Thorkil Vanggaard – Phallos: A Symbol and Its History in the Male World (1969)
Homosexuality, Sacred Eros, and Male Love
Andrew Calimach – Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths (2002)
Randy P. Connor – Blossom of Bone: Reclaiming the Connections Between Homoeroticism and the Sacred (1993)
Kenneth Dover – Greek Homosexuality (1978)
Gilles Herrada – The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love (2013)
Terry Sanderson – The Gay Man's Kama Sutra (2003)
Charles Silverstein & Felice Picano – The Joy of Gay Sex (2003)
Jacob Slavenburg – Vrijen met God: Over ‘heilige bruiloften’, erotiek & religie (2015)
Mitch Walker – Men Loving Men (1977)
Craig A. Williams – Roman Homosexuality (1999, second edition 2010)
Greek Civilization and Mythology
Stephen Fry – Mythos (2017)
Stephen Fry – Heroes (2018)
Stephen Fry – Troy (2020)
Robert Graves – The Greek Myths (1955)
George E. Mylonas – Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries (1961)
Martin P. Nilsson – A History of Greek Religion (1922)
Martin P. Nilsson – Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion (1950)
Minoan Civilization and Archaeology
Benjamin Alberti – Faience Goddesses and Ivory Bull-Leapers: The Aesthetics of Sexual Difference at Late Bronze Age Knossos (World Archaeology, 2001)
Cynthia Eller – Two Knights and a Goddess: Sir Arthur Evans, Sir James George Frazer, and the Invention of Minoan Religion
(Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 2012)
Arthur Evans – Cretan Pictographs and Prae-Phoenician Script (1895)
Arthur Evans – Mycenaean Pillar and Tree Cult and Its Mediterranean Relations (1901)
Arthur Evans – The Palace of Minos, Vol. I (1921)
Arthur Evans – The Palace of Minos, Vol. II (1928)
Arthur Evans – The Palace of Minos, Vol. III (1939)
Cathy Gere – Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism (2009)
Harry R. Hall – The Older Civilisation of Greece: Further Discoveries in Crete (Nature, 1901)
Charles H. Hawes & Harriet Boyd Hawes – Crete: The Forerunner of Greece (1909)
Robert Koehl – The Chieftain Cup and a Minoan Rite of Passage (Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1986)
Alexander MacGillivray – Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth (2000)
John K. Papadopoulos – Inventing the Minoans (Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 2005)
John D. S. Pendlebury – A Handbook to the Palace of Minos at Knossos (1933)
Theodore Ziolkowski – Minos and the Moderns: Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art (2008)
Comparative Mythology and Religion
James George Frazer – The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (1911)
James George Frazer – Adonis, Attis, Osiris: Studies in the History of Oriental Religion (1914)
Robert Graves – The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (1948)
Historical and Mythological Fiction
Mary Renault – The Last of the Wine (1956)
Mary Renault – The King Must Die (1958)
Mary Renault – The Bull from the Sea (1962)
Mary Renault – The Mask of Apollo (1966)
Mary Renault – Fire from Heaven (1969)
Mary Renault – The Persian Boy (1972)
Mary Renault – The Praise Singer (1978)
Mary Renault – Funeral Games (1981)
Thomas Burnett Swann – Cry Silver Bells (1977)
Thomas Burnett Swann – The Forest of Forever (1971)
Thomas Burnett Swann – The Days of the Minotaur (1966)
(The Minotaur novels were later collected as The Minotaur Trilogy, published in 1997.)
Thomas Burnett Swann – How Are the Mighty Fallen (1974)
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