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This looks like it's right up my alley.

I like this deck a lot. And the book is often necessary because cards will depict gods and historical figures that aren't necessarily recognizable in sight.

But the book sometimes gets its mythology wrong, refers to worrying ideas like theosophical Akashic records, and tries to brute force a thesis about prisca theologica that's as unnecessary as it is culturally flattening. The book will often talk about how "all cultures" do something that's factually untrue, like believing in "the light."

It does feature a more systematic mapping of I Ching trigrams to tarot cards, which was interesting. And much of the myth and history is still good.

@Torquatus It turns out that this is already a requested feature, so hopefully we will see it soon. BookWyrm is still a fairly young software project! github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/1311

@Stew_714 I've read it many, many times! It is my go-to translation. I hope you love it!

@Torquatus Yeah, that would be really awesome because then people viewing the book could click "Follow the author" and get your own updates and stuff. I'll post a feature request.

@Torquatus I'm now wondering if there is a way to "attach" your account here to a book so you can show off being an author on your profile page! I'll look into it.

A music theory manual written by a second century Neo-Pythagorean. It contains one of the earliest known models for the Harmony of the Spheres, a concise analysis of the musical intervals of Timaeus and many other interesting tidbits, including resolving seeming contradictions between Aristoxenian theories on music with Pythagorean theories on music. The analysis by the late Flora R Levin is an invaluable guide through this fascinating document written for an ancient, unnamed princess.

I absolutely love this translation. It is more poetic than others, and much easier to read. The book keeps it short, without a lot of explanation or commentary. But also, it has plenty of footnotes about translation, so you can get a better idea of where the translator was going and how they got there. I love this book so much that I take it with me when traveling! Highly recommended.

I just learned about this book while talking to one of the authors and it sounds really good. Putting it on my list!

Recommended by @Heatherfreeman

Recommended by a Discord pal.

I'm in the middle of the section on sexual curses and they are so delightful. I wish there was some sort of content warning here so I could share some weird explicit quotes.

I wish it were possible to add links to books. This one can be purchased for a very reasonable price at www.hadeanpress.com/shop-guides/p/fumigations-seven-planets