Pagan Fiction and Poetry

Kathryn Huxtable's Pagan Bibliography

("An it harm none...")

Fortune, Dion. The Sea Priestess. Samuel Weiser, York Beach, Maine, 1991. (orig. 1938)

A story about sea magic, Moon magic, Atlantis, and a woman who is the reincarnation of Morgan le Fey. Contains much good source material for spells and rituals. Highly recommended, despite her sloppy writing and her casual early 20th century racism.

________. Moon Magic. Samuel Weiser, York Beach, Maine, 1990. (orig. 1956)

Sequel to The Sea Priestess. More source material for spells. Also recommended, with the caveats above.

________. The Goat-Foot God. Aquarian Press, Northamptonshire, 1989.

Posthumus novel about invoking Pan in 1950s England. Some reincarnation. Good source material for invocations. Recommended, as above.

Monaghan, Patricia. Seasons of the Witch.

A poetic cycle of the seasons, containing Goddess-oriented poetry for the entire year. There's a Goddess-oriented recasting of the Song of Amergin, which I think is quite fine. Two that I especially liked were "A Vision of Hunger in Flesh", and "Garland Sunday, or she calls her lover to the mountain."

Pollack, Rachel. Unquenchable Fire.

Novel set in a future where a spiritual transformation has taken place and the majority philosophy is of earth-centered spirituality and of religious ecstacy with a Witchy/New Agey flavor. A woman is made pregnant by a Divine Agency and is not happy about it. It has some interesting things to say about the nature of religious experience and how we seek different things from it. Highly recommended.

________. Temporary Agency.

Detective novel set in the same universe as Unquenchable Fire. Contains minor lesbian elements. I liked it, but it didn't shake my world view or open up any new vistas.

Starhawk. The Fifth Sacred Thing. Bantam, New York, 1993.

Novel set in 2048, contrasting life in power-over based, planet raping City of Angels (Los Angeles) with life in non-authoritarian, ecofeminist San Francisco. I enjoyed this book a lot, though I did find it a bit dualist for an author who eschews easy judgments. Despite its flaws, which in the final analysis are few, it still is one of the best presentations of what a Pagan future could look like. For another view, see Rachel Pollack's Unquenchable Fire.

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