The Gods Remain: Old European Religion as Found in Greece, the Germanic Countries and Elsewhere

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I posted about this to cultofapollo and on the Neokoroi list, but I know that there are people on my friends list who will also find this interesting

Has anyone heard of The Gods Remain: Old European Religion as Found in Greece, the Germanic Countries and Elsewhere by Thomas Sefton?

I don't know anything about this book, but it looks very interesting. The author sees to have a lot of interest in comparing Apollo and Odin. I just discovered it on Amazon and then noticed a comments that a few chapters were available on the publishers website. Turns out that four chapters, plus shortened versions of all chapters, plus a couple of essays are available on the website, so I started skimming the chapter Oidipous: Devotee of Apollon.

In addition to the Apollo intererst, there is a chapter on the site that would be relevant to anyone with an interest in Odin:

http://www.kolonospress.com/gods_remain_chapters/gods_rem_jadar.html
(assuming that the information is good, of course. I just found this and haven't started reading much of it yet, too busy saying "Oooh, lookee here" to everyone first.)

Here also is the main page:

http://www.kolonospress.com/index.html

If anyone is familiar with the book or has thoughts after reading any of the material available on the site, I'd be interested in hearing it.

Comments

[pinkpolarity.livejournal.com]

This actually looks really interesting to me. What I read on the site I can understand, it's not loaded down with aca-jargon, and the subject matter is interesting. I'd like to know more about the interaction of ancient cultures in general, how much one people knew about other peoples and their religions. I'm definitely printing some of it for later, thanks for the rec!

[totallypinkrock.livejournal.com]

Well, I have a *crush* on Apollo. :)
And that book does look interesting, since I'm a Buddhist who sometimes wishes he could be into Asatru.

[flower-nymph.livejournal.com]

Oh yea, I've heard of this book, from my yahoo group-devoted to Apollo. It does sound interesting.

[erl-queen.livejournal.com]

I got your email, thank you - just haven't had time to go look. But I'm excited, it looks very interesting.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Oh? which group do you run?

[flower-nymph.livejournal.com]

Oh no, no, I am apart of two yahoo groups, that are devoted to Apollo, one is Thiasos Apollon and the other is Kyklos Apollon.