RESOUR> [NetGold] RELIGION: SACRED TEXTS : REFERENCE: RESOURCES: The Internet Sacred Text Archive
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From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [NetGold] RELIGION: SACRED TEXTS : REFERENCE: RESOURCES: The
Internet Sacred Text Archive
RELIGION: SACRED TEXTS : REFERENCE: RESOURCES: The Internet Sacred Text
Archive
The Internet Sacred Text Archive
<http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm>
"All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have
their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the
courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of
the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what
they are seeking for,--real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of
faith and hope."
-- Max Mller, Introduction to the Upanishads Vol. II.
"This site is a freely available non-profit archive of electronic texts
about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric
topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, in some cases, in
the original language."
<snip>
"The texts presented here are either original scans from books and
articles clearly in the public domain, material which has been presented
elsewhere on the Internet, or material included under fair use conditions
in printed anthologies.
Many of the texts included here were originally posted in ftp archives or
on bulletin boards before the growth of the World Wide Web and have been
lost. In some cases, the texts were posted in such a form as to make them
unusable by non-technically oriented users. Some of these texts were on
the web at some point but have completely disappeared because the site
they were posted on has closed. Thus the need for an archive which
organizes this material in a persistent location.
When few or no primary texts are available for a given religion,
secondary texts have been included. In many cases, there are no primary
texts for a given religion because the tradition is primarily oral. In
this case, texts which contain transcriptions or retellings of these
traditions have been used.
To round out the collection, we have been actively scanning original
material from books and articles in the public domain. We have scanned
over two hundred books in the past four years. A comprehensive
bibliography of the texts scanned at sacred texts is available here. In
particular, comprehensive translations of the Shinto texts, the Kalevala,
the Upanishads, and the Rig Veda have never appeared anywhere else on the
Net, to our knowledge. The African and Polynesian texts are also unique
to this site."
<http://www.sacred-texts.com/about.htm>
Sacred Texts Bibliography
<http://www.sacred-texts.com/stbib.htm>
"This is a comprehensive bibliography of all complete books scanned at,
or for, the Internet Sacred Text Archive. If a file is listed here, it
normally indicates that this is the first place it was posted anywhere on
the Internet, as far as we can determine. This does not list etexts of
journal articles, nor files scanned elsewhere and posted or reformatted
for sacred-texts. All of these texts are believed to be in the public
domain. Their files may be used for any non-commercial purpose freely, as
long as they are attributed correctly."
The Bibliography is divided into these categories:
Age of Reason
African and Afro-Caribbean
Americana
Alchemy
Native American
Arthurian
Asian Traditional
Atlantis, etc.
Australia
Basque
Buddhism
Celtic
Confucianism / Chinese Traditional Beliefs
Christianity and Gnosticism
Egypt
England
Evil
Finland
Gothic
Greek and Roman
Hinduism
Iceland/Scandinavia/Germany
Islam
Jainism
Judaism
Miscellaneous
Mormonism
Near East
Neo-Pagan / Wicca / Family Traditions / Ceremonial Magic
Pacific
Prophecy
Sacred Sexuality
Shamanism
Shinto / Japan
Sikhism
Slavic
Taoism
Tarot
Theosophy
Tolkien
UFOs / Sky Lore
Utopia & Dystopia
Women
Zoroastrianism
The site provides a web page whose topic is books and covers these book
oriented topics and links:
The main group of topical sacred text pages is somewhat different than the
page with the categorized bibliography. The main category pages
comprising this sites major content include these:
Topics
African
Age of Reason
Alchemy
Americana
Ancient Near East
Atlantis
Asia
Australia
Baha'i
Bible
Book of Shadows
Buddhism
Christianity
Celtic
Classics
Confucianism
DNA
Egyptian
England
Esoteric & Occult
Evil
Fortean
Goddesses
Gothic
Grimoires
Hinduism
I Ching
Islam
Jainism
Journals
Judaism
Legends and Sagas
Miscellaneous
Mormonism
Native American
Neopaganism/Wicca
Nostradamus
Oahspe
Pacific
Paleolithic
Piri Re'is Map
Prophecy
Sacred Books of the East
Sacred Sexuality
Sacred Time
Shamanism
Shinto
Sikhism
Sky Lore
Sufi
Tantra
Taoism
Tarot
Thelema
Theosophy
Timeline
Tolkien
UFOs
Utopia
Women
Zoroastrianism
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As if this is not enough for one website to bite off, there are links:
Links
<http://www.sacred-texts.com/links.htm>
The content areas other than topical of this website include:
Index About Bibliography Books Copyrights Contact Donate
FAQ Links Map Message Press Privacy Search Abuse Terms of Service
Standards Translate Unicode Volunteer
World Mysteries Traditions What's New?
Buy CD-ROM Bookshop
This is obviously a very important and heavily used web resource.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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