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Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Buy Me A Coffee buymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects BIBLIOGRAPHY Episode One: Before the Brain Scan Modern Sexual Response and Neuroscientific Framing Basson, Rosemary. “Human Sex-Response Cycles.” Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy 27, no. 1 (2001): 33–43. Georgiadis, Janniko R. “Doing It… Wild? On the Role of the Cerebral Cortex in Human Sexual Activity.” Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology 2 (2012): 17337. Georgiadis, Janniko R., and A. A. T. Simone Reinders. “Men versus Women on Sexual Brain Function: Prominent Differences during Tactile Genital Stimulation, but Not during Orgasm.” Human Brain Mapping 30, no. 10 (2009): 3089–3101. Kaplan, Helen Singer. The New Sex Therapy: Active Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1974. Masters, William H., and Virginia E. Johnson. Human Sexual Response. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1966. Stoléru, Serge, Virginie Fonteille, Christelle Cornélis, Christian Joyal, and Virginie Moulier. “Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Sexual Arousal and Orgasm in Healthy Men and Women: A Review and Meta-Analysis.” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 36, no. 6 (2012): 1481–1509. Wise, Nan J., Eleni Frangos, and Barry R. Komisaruk. “Brain Activity Unique to Orgasm in Women: An fMRI Analysis.” Journal of Sexual Medicine 14, no. 11 (2017): 1380–1391. Ancient Egyptian Primary Sources and Textual Collections Allen, James P., trans. The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005. Faulkner, Raymond O., trans. The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts. 3 vols. Warminster, UK: Aris & Phillips, 1973–1978. Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature. Vol. 1, The Old and Middle Kingdoms. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. Lichtheim, Miriam. Ancient Egyptian Literature. Vol. 2, The New Kingdom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. University College London. “Kahun Medical Papyrus.” Digital Egypt for Universities. Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology. Accessed July 21, 2026. University College London. “Healing Papyri from Lahun.” Digital Egypt for Universities. Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology. Accessed July 21, 2026. Ancient Egyptian Religion, Sexuality, and Medicine Allen, James P. Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts. Yale Egyptological Studies 2. New Haven, CT: Yale Egyptological Seminar, 1988. Assmann, Jan. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. Graves-Brown, Carolyn. Dancing for Hathor: Women in Ancient Egypt. London: Continuum, 2010. Hornung, Erik. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many. Translated by John Baines. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982. Manniche, Lise. Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt. London: KPI, 1987. Matić, Uroš. “Sexuality in Ancient Egypt: Pleasures, Desires, Norms, and Representations.” In The Cambridge World History of Sexualities, vol. 2, edited by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Mathew Kuefler, 22–42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Nunn, John F. Ancient Egyptian Medicine. London: British Museum Press, 1996. Pinch, Geraldine. Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Ritner, Robert Kriech. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 54. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1993. Robins, Gay. Women in Ancient Egypt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. Smith, Mark. Following Osiris: Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four Millennia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Stevens, Anna. “The Material Evidence for Domestic Religion at Amarna and Preliminary Remarks on Its Interpretation.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 89 (2003): 143–168. Mesopotamian Primary Sources and Translated Literature Black, Jeremy, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson, and Gábor Zólyomi. The Literature of Ancient Sumer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Foster, Benjamin R. Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature. 3rd ed. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2005. Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Harps That Once…: Sumerian Poetry in Translation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987. Kramer, Samuel Noah. The Sacred Marriage Rite: Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969. Wolkstein, Diane, and Samuel Noah Kramer. Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth—Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer. New York: Harper & Row, 1983. Mesopotamian Sexuality, Sacred Marriage, and Gender Assante, Julia. “The Kar.kid/Ḫarimtu: Prostitute or Single Woman? A Reconsideration of the Evidence.” Ugarit-Forschungen 30 (1998): 5–96. Biggs, Robert D. ŠÀ.ZI.GA: Ancient Mesopotamian Potency Incantations. Texts from Cuneiform Sources 2. Locust Valley, NY: J. J. Augustin, 1967. Budin, Stephanie Lynn. Fertility and Gender in the Ancient Near East. London: Routledge, 2014. Budin, Stephanie Lynn. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Leick, Gwendolyn. Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature. London: Routledge, 1994. Lapinkivi, Pirjo. The Sumerian Sacred Marriage in the Light of Comparative Evidence. State Archives of Assyria Studies 15. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2004. Peled, Ilan. “Sexuality in the Systems of Thought and Belief of the Ancient Near East.” In The Cambridge World History of Sexualities, vol. 2, edited by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Mathew Kuefler, 43–62. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Peled, Ilan. Masculinities and Third Gender: The Origins and Nature of an Institutionalized Gender Otherness in the Ancient Near East. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2016. Parpola, Simo, and Robert M. Whiting, eds. Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2002. Stol, Marten. Women in the Ancient Near East. Translated by Helen Richardson and Mervyn Richardson. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. Westenholz, Joan Goodnick. “Tamar, Qĕdēšā, Qadištu, and Sacred Prostitution in Mesopotamia.” Harvard Theological Review 82, no. 3 (1989): 245–266. Wiggermann, Frans A. M. “Sexualität: In Mesopotamien.” In Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, vol. 12, edited by Michael P. Streck and others, 410–426. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010. Mesopotamian Medicine, Reproduction, and the Body Böck, Barbara. The Healing Goddess Gula: Towards an Understanding of Ancient Babylonian Medicine. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 67. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Geller, Markham J. Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Horstmanshoff, H. F. J., Marten Stol, and Cornelis Tilburg, eds. Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine. Studies in Ancient Medicine 27. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Scurlock, JoAnn, and Burton R. Andersen. Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine: Ancient Sources, Translations, and Modern Medical Analyses. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Steinert, Ulrike. “Fluids, Rivers, and Vessels: Metaphors and Body Concepts in Mesopotamian Gynaecological Texts.” Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes 22 (2013): 1–23. Steinert, Ulrike. “Concepts of the Female Body in Mesopotamian Gynecological Texts.” In The Comparable Body: Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine, edited by John Z. Wee, 275–357. Leiden: Brill, 2018. Stol, Marten. Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean Setting. Cuneiform Monographs 14. Groningen: Styx Publications, 2000. Broader Comparative and Methodological Studies Budin, Stephanie Lynn. “Phallic Fertility in the Ancient Near East and Egypt.” In Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day, edited by Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming, and Lauren Kassell, 31–48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Faraone, Christopher A., and Laura K. McClure, eds. Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. King, Helen. Hippocrates’ Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. London: Routledge, 1998. Stol, Marten. “Women in Mesopotamia.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 38, no. 2 (1995): 123–144. Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., and Mathew Kuefler, eds. The Cambridge World History of Sexualities. Vol. 2, Systems of Thought and Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Buy Me A Coffee buymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects BIBLIOGRAPHY PRIMARY AND CLASSICAL SOURCES Augustine of Hippo. Confessions. Translated by Henry Chadwick. Oxford University Press. Augustine of Hippo. On Christian Teaching. Translated by R. P. H. Green. Oxford University Press. Augustine of Hippo. On Free Choice of the Will. Translated by Thomas Williams. Hackett Publishing. Augustine of Hippo. On Music. Translated by Robert Catesby Taliaferro. Catholic University of America Press. Boethius. Fundamentals of Music. Translated by Calvin M. Bower. Yale University Press. Boethius. De institutione arithmetica. Translated by Michael Masi as Boethian Number Theory. Rodopi. The Bible. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; the Book of Wisdom; and relevant Passion narratives and numerical traditions. The Gawain Poet. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Edited by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, revised by Norman Davis. Oxford University Press. CHRISTIAN NUMBER, CREATION, AND THE MEDIEVAL INTELLECTUAL WORLD Brown, Peter. Augustine of Hippo: A Biography. University of California Press, revised edition, 2000. Evans, G. R. Augustine on Evil. Cambridge University Press, 1982. Grant, Edward. God and Reason in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Grant, Edward. The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Lindberg, David C. The Beginnings of Western Science. University of Chicago Press, revised edition, 2007. Marenbon, John. Medieval Philosophy: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction. Routledge, 2007. McInerny, Ralph. Boethius and Aquinas. Catholic University of America Press, 1990. O’Daly, Gerard. Augustine’s Philosophy of Mind. University of California Press, 1987. MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN DEVOTION AND THE FIVE WOUNDS Bynum, Caroline Walker. Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe. Zone Books, 2011. Bynum, Caroline Walker. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. University of California Press, 1987. Bynum, Caroline Walker. Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages. University of California Press, 1982. Bynum, Caroline Walker. Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400–1580. Yale University Press, second edition, 2005. Lewis, Flora. “The Wound in Christ’s Side and the Instruments of the Passion: Gendered Experience and Response.” In Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence, edited by Jane H. M. Taylor and Lesley Smith. British Library and University of Toronto Press, 1996. Rubin, Miri. Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture. Cambridge University Press, 1991. Southern, R. W. The Making of the Middle Ages. Yale University Press, 1953. SIR GAWAIN AND THE PENTANGLE Andrew, Malcolm, and Ronald Waldron, editors. The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. University of California Press. Burrow, J. A. A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965. Davenport, W. A. The Art of the Gawain-Poet. Athlone Press, 1978. Putter, Ad. An Introduction to the Gawain-Poet. Longman, 1996. Spearing, A. C. The Gawain-Poet: A Critical Study. Cambridge University Press, 1970. Tolkien, J. R. R., and E. V. Gordon, editors. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Revised by Norman Davis. Oxford University Press. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY PRIMARY AND CLASSICAL SOURCES Aristotle. Metaphysics. Translated by Hugh Tredennick. Harvard University Press. Aristotle. On the Heavens. Translated by W. K. C. Guthrie. Harvard University Press. Diogenes Laërtius. Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VIII. Translated by R. D. Hicks. Harvard University Press. Euclid. The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements. Translated and edited by Thomas L. Heath. Cambridge University Press. Iamblichus. On the Pythagorean Way of Life. Translated by John Dillon and Jackson Hershbell. Society of Biblical Literature. Philolaus. Fragments and Testimonia, collected and discussed in Carl A. Huffman’s Philolaus of Croton. Plato. Phaedo. In Plato: Complete Works, edited by John M. Cooper. Hackett Publishing. Plato. Republic. Translated by C. D. C. Reeve. Hackett Publishing. Plato. Theaetetus. Translated by M. J. Levett and revised by Myles Burnyeat. Hackett Publishing. Plato. Timaeus. Translated by Donald J. Zeyl. Hackett Publishing. Plotinus. The Enneads. Translated by A. H. Armstrong. Harvard University Press. Porphyry. Life of Pythagoras. In The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library, translated by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie and edited by David R. Fideler. Phanes Press. Proclus. A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid’s Elements. Translated by Glenn R. Morrow. Princeton University Press. PYTHAGORAS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN TRADITION Burkert, Walter. Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism. Translated by Edwin L. Minar Jr. Harvard University Press, 1972. Huffman, Carl A. A History of Pythagoreanism. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Huffman, Carl A. Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King. Cambridge University Press, 2005. Huffman, Carl A. Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic. Cambridge University Press, 1993. Kahn, Charles H. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History. Hackett Publishing, 2001. Riedweg, Christoph. Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, and Influence. Cornell University Press, 2005. Waterfield, Robin. The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists. Oxford University Press, 2000. Zhmud, Leonid. Pythagoras and the Early Pythagoreans. Oxford University Press, 2012. PLATO, PLATONISM, AND ANCIENT COSMOLOGY Annas, Julia. An Introduction to Plato’s Republic. Oxford University Press, 1981. Cornford, Francis Macdonald. Plato’s Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato. Hackett Publishing, 1997. Dillon, John. The Middle Platonists: 80 B.C. to A.D. 220. Cornell University Press, 1996. Fowler, David. The Mathematics of Plato’s Academy: A New Reconstruction. Oxford University Press, 1999. Guthrie, W. K. C. A History of Greek Philosophy, Volumes I–V. Cambridge University Press. Johansen, Thomas Kjeller. Plato’s Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias. Cambridge University Press, 2004. O’Meara, Dominic J. Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 1989. Sedley, David. Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity. University of California Press, 2007. Wallis, Richard T. Neoplatonism. Hackett Publishing, 1995. EUCLID, THE PENTAGON, AND GREEK MATHEMATICS Heath, Thomas L. A History of Greek Mathematics. Dover Publications. Heath, Thomas L. The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements. Cambridge University Press. Knorr, Wilbur Richard. The Evolution of the Euclidean Elements. D. Reidel Publishing, 1975. Mueller, Ian. Philosophy of Mathematics and Deductive Structure in Euclid’s Elements. MIT Press, 1981. Netz, Reviel. The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pappas, Theoni. The Joy of Mathematics. Wide World Publishing, for accessible visual discussion of pentagonal proportion and recursive geometry. Van der Waerden, B. L. Science Awakening. Noordhoff International Publishing. LATE ANTIQUITY, NEOPLATONISM, AND THEURGY Chlup, Radek. Proclus: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Dillon, John. The Middle Platonists. Cornell University Press. Finamore, John F., and Sarah Iles Johnston. The Chaldean Oracles: A New Translation and Commentary. Society of Biblical Literature, 2011. Gregory, John. The Neoplatonists: A Reader. Routledge, 1999. Shaw, Gregory. Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus. Angelico Press, revised edition, 2014. Smith, Andrew. Porphyry’s Place in the Neoplatonic Tradition. Springer, 1974. Wallis, Richard T. Neoplatonism. Hackett Publishing. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Buy Me A Coffee buymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects Bibliography Repetition, Fluency, and Belief Bacon, Frederick T. “Credibility of Repeated Statements: Memory for Trivia.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory 5, no. 3 (1979): 241–252. Begg, Ian Maynard, Ann Anas, and Suzanne Farinacci. “Dissociation of Processes in Belief: Source Recollection, Statement Familiarity, and the Illusion of Truth.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 121, no. 4 (1992): 446–458. 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Jakubowski, Kelly, Sebastian Finkel, Lauren Stewart, and Daniel Müllensiefen. “Dissecting an Earworm: Melodic Features and Song Popularity Predict Involuntary Musical Imagery.” Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 11, no. 2 (2017): 122–135. Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth. On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Marjieh, Raja, Pol van Rijn, Ilia Sucholutsky, Harin Lee, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Nori Jacoby. “A Rational Analysis of the Speech-to-Song Illusion.” Preprint, 2024. Vickhoff, Björn, Helge Malmgren, Rickard Åström, Gunnar Nyberg, Seth-Reino Ekström, Mathias Engwall, Johan Snygg, Michael Nilsson, and Rebecka Jörnsten. “Music Structure Determines Heart Rate Variability of Singers.” Frontiers in Psychology 4 (2013): 334. Breath, Vocalization, and Autonomic Physiology Bernardi, Luciano, Peter Sleight, Gianfranco Bandinelli, Simone Cencetti, Lino Fattorini, Jacek Wdowczyc-Szulc, and Andrea Lagi. “Effect of Rosary Prayer and Yoga Mantras on Autonomic Cardiovascular Rhythms: Comparative Study.” BMJ 323, no. 7327 (2001): 1446–1449. Lehrer, Paul M., and Richard Gevirtz. “Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback: How and Why Does It Work?” Frontiers in Psychology 5 (2014): 756. Shaffer, Fred, and J. P. Ginsberg. “An Overview of Heart Rate Variability Metrics and Norms.” Frontiers in Public Health 5 (2017): 258. Zaccaro, Andrea, Andrea Piarulli, Marco Laurino, Erika Garbella, Danilo Menicucci, Bruno Neri, and Angelo Gemignani. “How Breath-Control Can Change Your Life: A Systematic Review on Psycho-Physiological Correlates of Slow Breathing.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 12 (2018): 353. Meditation, Chanting, and Neuroscience Fox, Kieran C. R., Matthew L. Dixon, Savannah Nijeboer, Manesh Girn, James L. 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Risen, Dimitris Xygalatas, and Michael Inzlicht. “The Psychology of Rituals: An Integrative Review and Process-Based Framework.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 22, no. 3 (2018): 260–284. McCauley, Robert N., and E. Thomas Lawson. Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Rappaport, Roy A. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Xygalatas, Dimitris. Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2022. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.

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Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Buy Me A Coffee buymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects Bibliography Primary and Classical Sources Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius. Three Books of Occult Philosophy. 1533. Translated by James Freake; edited and annotated by Donald Tyson. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1993. Austin, J. L. How to Do Things with Words. 2nd ed. Edited by J. O. Urmson and Marina Sbisà. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Originally published 1962. Betz, Hans Dieter, ed. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Clarke, Emma C., John M. Dillon, and Jackson P. Hershbell, trans. Iamblichus: De Mysteriis. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003. Faulkner, Raymond O., trans. The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Revised by Carol Andrews. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990. Iamblichus. On the Mysteries. Translated by Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon, and Jackson P. Hershbell. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003. Searle, John R. Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman Magic Borghouts, J. F. Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts. Leiden: Brill, 1978. Dieleman, Jacco. Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Faraone, Christopher A., and Dirk Obbink, eds. Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Frankfurter, David. “Narrating Power: The Theory and Practice of the Magical Historiola in Ritual Spells.” In Ancient Magic and Ritual Power, edited by Marvin Meyer and Paul Mirecki, 457–476. Leiden: Brill, 1995. Frankfurter, David. Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Graf, Fritz. Magic in the Ancient World. Translated by Franklin Philip. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Meyer, Marvin, and Paul Mirecki, eds. Ancient Magic and Ritual Power. Leiden: Brill, 1995. Pinch, Geraldine. Magic in Ancient Egypt. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. Ritner, Robert K. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 54. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1993. Smith, Morton. Jesus the Magician. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1978. Use cautiously and comparatively rather than as a consensus account. Ritual Language and Performative Speech Bloch, Maurice. “Symbols, Song, Dance and Features of Articulation: Is Religion an Extreme Form of Traditional Authority?” European Journal of Sociology 15, no. 1 (1974): 55–81. Finnegan, Ruth. Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Malinowski, Bronisław. Coral Gardens and Their Magic. 2 vols. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935. Rappaport, Roy A. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. “The Magical Power of Words.” Man 3, no. 2 (1968): 175–208. Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. Culture, Thought, and Social Action: An Anthropological Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. Oral Tradition, Formula, and Transmission Foley, John Miles. The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. Lord, Albert B. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960. Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Methuen, 1982. Parry, Milman. The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Edited by Adam Parry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Ritual Form, Authority, and Transmission Bell, Catherine. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Bell, Catherine. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. McCauley, Robert N., and E. Thomas Lawson. Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Whitehouse, Harvey. Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004. Xygalatas, Dimitris. Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2022. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.