Devotional
Sacred text, story and practice, kept side by side rather than sorted into a single tradition. Hindu mythology and beej mantras sit alongside Buddhist teaching, Bible narratives, Islamic duas, and the folk remedies that grew up around all of them. Many entries carry a recorded reading, and where a text has a settled canonical form it is given in full before any commentary on it.
50 of these entries carry a recorded reading — the text spoken in full, above the commentary on it. They are marked wherever they appear below.
THE RECITATIONS →Vedic and Puranic
80 ENTRIESThe Vedas and the Puranas, the stotra and chalisa recited from them, and the planetary remedies and ayurveda that grew up around them
Biblical and Christian
18 ENTRIESThe narratives, named by book, and the prayers said from them
Buddhist
17 ENTRIESThe teaching, and the mantras recited in it
Ancient Egyptian
15 ENTRIESThe Book of the Dead, its amulets and spells, and the tales of Ra, Isis, Horus and Thoth
Islamic
14 ENTRIESThe jinn, one kind at a time, with the duas and talismans of the same tradition
Mesopotamian
11 ENTRIESThe Enuma Elish in seven tablets, and the Sumerian myths
Western occult
8 ENTRIESThe Solomonic line — the Key of Solomon, the Lemegeton, Daemonologie