/lit/ - Literature

>>20039964

>>19197089
True. However, would it be fair to say the Sumerians can, to a certain degree, inform someone's reading of The Bible?

Ok bois, here I go with what I got

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/the-babylonians-used-pythagorean-ideas-long-before-pythagoras/21803301
>he started with the greeks

>>18014981
starting with the sumerians

>>16967190

>>15391151
ur welcome

Is there anything earlier than this which is worth reading, if someone wants to start right at the very beginning is this it?

I need more of them bros. Post them plz

Any more suggestions to better enhance my knowledge of the ancient near east? I really enjoy reading texts that are actually from the period and would like to read more of them.

>Start with the SUMERIANS

Is this the starting point of literature? Is there something before this worth knowing?

Could I get a bunch of "start with" pics? I want to see/hear of the different routes people take in exploring the literature topological map.

>>14556010
Forgot pic.

>>14484208
"The Sumerians" by S. N. Kramer

Can I replace The Hittites with The Kingdom of the Hittites? (there is no digital copy of The Hittites anywhere at all)
Also which should I skip?

Pic related and Uzdavinys' book (I can't recall the title right now)

I'm going to tell you, go quickly through the early Afro-Asiatics real close, since you have to understand them since they are the start of our civilizational histories.
Basically do a short walk through pic related, while the Hittites are Aryan (if you get angry at me using this word, pick a better one cause Indo-European sounds like shit) the Hittites did adopt a lot of Semitic influence in this period. Which is why it's best to know those influences so you can distinguish what is and isn't Aryan.
-Homer next. He's good stuff through and through, and though a bit boring you will most likely think about it for the rest of your life even if you can't remember all of it.
-No need to read most of the pre-socratics unless you have special interests.
-Platon
-Aristotle
-Anabasis
-Caesar
-Aeneid
-The Metamorphosis (Ovid)
-Posthomerica
-Plotinus
around here is where things start getting weird, cause not only has paganism merged with christianity in the form of gnosticism, but it has in many other forms as well which only grow in size during the crusades. I mainly know about northwest (faustian) europe
-Beowulf
-Prose Edda
-Poetic Edda
-Sagas of Volsungs and Lothbrok
-Nibelungenlied
-Sir Gawain the the Green Knight
The 3 matters in medieval history are chock full of pagan imagery and hidden meanings.
By now we start reaching the point where "neo" paganism starts.
-Goethe
-Schopenhauer
-Nietzsche
-Marinetti
-Robert E. Howard, no joke. Wrote great fiction and himself was the sort of christopagan common in the 20s.
-Jünger (himself a catholic, his early life [before ww2] had a lot more LHP characteristics that every pagan should be interested in contrast to the meditation form of enlightenment)
-Spengler, some damn fine works he's made. This is where you may want to go back to the presocratics as he wrote extensively on Heraclitus)
-Evola (stay out of his political Penology)
-Emil Cioran (beware his depression)
-Stephen Flowers (beware his BDSM)
-Collin Cleary (beware his irishness)

People to NOT READ for religious reasons:
Wagner (Firm Christian)
Guenon (Islamo Catholic)
Varg (Placenta)

Now now, I know I skipped A LOT of people. Do not take this as the end all of paganism, it's just a toe in the waters. Don't read this in order either, you will get bored. Jump around and have fun or you will only resent this.
I'll keep this thread up to answer any questions anon may have

>>12859657

cause you're dumb as wood
start with the sumerians

I literally just finished the Saga of the Volsungs and the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok today. Ragnar's saga is fucking great, Volsungs was a let down from the hype.
Of course, start with the sumerians in The Epic of Gilgamesh. Was a while ago since I'm doing canon order of the West but was quite fun. Most of pic related is good in face