Gangleri – book reviews

Together with a book of Cor Swanenberg alone called Oost-Brabantse Streekwoorden which only contains sayings (which is amusing nonetheless), I also got this more ’scholarly’ booklet. It came in a series called Taal in stad en streek (‘language in city and region’), a series about dialects, in his case “Oost-Brabant”. Noord-Brabant (“Northern-Brabant”) is a province in the southern Netherlands (the rest of Brabant lays in Belgium since 1813) and the… Continue reading Oost-Brabants * Jos and Cor Swanenberg (2003 sdu * isbn 9012090105)

Sometimes I’m lucky. Every once in a while I check some second hand book websites for the Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte. It is not that this book is impossible to find, but antiquarians know what to ask for it. I have seen prices from 200 up to 400 euros! I really wanted to have the book, but not for that amount of money. Last week I looked again and on one site… Continue reading Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte

‘The other Flemish Asatru group’ publishes its third magazine, a year after the first. An A5 magazine of modest thickness with an article about bird-like men in ancient drawing and carvings, an interview with “radical ecologist” (or “radical green right”) Guy de Maertelaere, the juniper tree, Sutton Hoo and the game of Hnefatafl. A nice read for a nice price, but of course in Dutch. Get in contact with Werkgroep… Continue reading Wende 3

Apparently there is more and more attention for local variations of language: dialect or slang. Quite some time ago I wrote a little article about the subject and in this book reviews section I reviewed a few ‘books’ about the subject. Last weekend we were in the Noord-Brabants Museum in ’s-Hertogenbosch and in the little shop my eye fell on a few titles about the dialect from (Eastern) Brabant, the… Continue reading Slang

A few weeks ago I was looking for some information on the website of the Dutch Grand East of Freemasonry. However I did not find what I was looking for, my eye fell on a new book title “Building and Meaning”. That could be interesting, a masonic book about building symbolism, so I ordered a copy. Contrary to what I expected, but book is not about symbolism of ornaments on… Continue reading Bouwen en Betekenis * Paul Corbey (2008 fama * isbn 9789072032225)

La Religion romaine archaïque suivi d’un appendice sur la religion des Estrusques 1966
Here we have a more massive investigation of Dumézil. 700 Pages about the religion of the Romans. I have no particular interest in the Roman religion, but of course the writer makes cross-references to other Indo-European religions and being so obviously Indo-European, the “archaic Roman religion” sheds a new light on some aspects of other Indo-European religions… Continue reading Archaic Roman Religion * Georges Dumézil (1970 the university of chicago press * isbn 0226169685)

The Scandinavian Heimdallr especially recalls Janus, both in space and in time. Stationed “at the limits of earth.” “at the furthest point of the sky,” he is the watchman of the gods; “born in the beginning,” he is the ancestor of humanity, the procreator of the classes, and the founder of the whole social order; and yet he is decidedly inferior to the sovereign god Óðinn. The Shorter Völuspá defines

The modern intellectual will without hesitation admit that the symbology of mythology has a psychological meaning. Especially since the work of psychoanalysists there can be little doubt that myths are of the same breed as dreams and that dreams are the driving force of the psyche.

I did not really plan on reading this book, but I ran into second hand and also I was a little curious… Continue reading The Hero With A Thousand Faces * Joseph Campbell (1972 princeton university press * isbn 0691017840)

As you might have noticed, I have moved the “quotes” and the “publications” from the news section to the more logical section: this one. Also I have added a “blog” to every section, where I can put some chitchat that are not reviews. I consider removing the “now reading” information from the “sidebar” to this “blog” as well, but I haven’t decided yet.
As it comes to “chitchat”, yesterday I… Continue reading Book reviews blog

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