Resources for Sumerian Astrology, History, Language, Culture, and More
Here is a list of recommended reading for anyone interested in Mesopotamian astrology, history, language, religion, and culture. These are my Amazon affiliate links to the hardcopy/paperback versions. Where possible, I have also listed links to free PDF versions, as many of these books are out of print, and quite expensive.
I highlighted some of my MUST-HAVEs to make searching easier 😉
Mesopotamian Astronomy-Astrology
Readability: Easy
Written for: Everyone
Information: Extensive
Price: $27 – $34
An in-depth exploration of the Babylonian sky and the star-lore embedded therein. While not a how-to manual for practicing astrology.
The only compilation of its kind, it’s an absolutely MUST-HAVE for anyone interested in ancient astrology or the Mesopotamian sky!
Readability: Easy
Written for: Everyone
Information: Decent
Price: $5 – $18
An easy-to-read account of Babylonian astrology, suitable for the layman. Section one focuses on scholars and archeology. Section two concerns astrology and cosmology.
It’s a great starting point for Babylonian astrologers, but lacks the juicy details I crave in my astrology literature.
Readability: Moderate
Written for: Laymen and Students
Information: Extensive
Price: $0
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A scholarly reference brimming with textual sources concerning Mesopotamian astrology, with a focus on the State Archives of Assyria (SAA) and Enuma Anu Enlila (EAE).
An absolute MUST-HAVE for ancient astrologers, but I knocked off half a star for her clear, albeit negligible Babylonian bias.” -Abbey
Readability: Difficult
Written for: Scholars
Information: Exhaustive
Price: $0 – $200
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A wealth of evidence for the Babylonian development of Classical astrological theory and technique.
A scholarly work, but a must-have for any serious student of astrology. Just be warned–it does not make good bedtime reading! Bro does not do short paragraphs!
Old Babylonian Omen Texts - Albrecht Goetze - Yale Oriental Series | Babylonian Texts Vol. X (1974 Yele University Press)
Readability: Difficult
Written for: Scholars
Information: Decent
Price: $0
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An important work and reference guide for the serious student of Babylonian Astrology.
Readability: Moderate
Written for: Scholars
Information: Exhaustive
Price: $0
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An excellent reference for anyone interested in the original meanings of the Planets in Mesopotamia, and a must-have for serious astrologers.
Software
Usability: Moderate
For: Professional Astrologers
Functionality: Extensive
Price: $275 (Free 30-Day Trial)
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Powerful and affordable–the professional astrology software I use for my advanced calculations.
Everything you need in professional astrology software!
Usability: Easy
For: Beginners and Professional Astrologers
Functionality: Limited
Price: $8/mo, $60/yr
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An affordable solution for students and professional astrologers.
I recommend Luna to all of my astrology students.
Usability: Easy – Moderate
For: Everyone
Functionality: Exhaustive
Price: $0 – $200
Open-source planetarium software with massive functionality, that I use for all of my readings! An absolute MUST-HAVE for any astrologer!
They also have a stripped-down version for PC, as well as a phone app, which you can check out here.
Sumerian Language
Readability: Difficult
Written for: Linguists
Information: Exhaustive
Price: $0
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A MUST-HAVE for anyone interested in learning Sumerian! Probably the most comprehensive breakdown of the Sumerian language you’ll find. Definitely not for beginners or new-comers to foreign language learning.
Readability: Moderate
Written For: Linguists
Information: Extensive
Price: $0
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Probably the best Sumerian Grammar out there. Though a scholarly work, it’s written in a way that with a little patience, new-comers to the Sumerian Language should be able to follow.” -Abbey
Readability: Moderate
Written for: Linguists
Information: Extensive
Price: $0
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Another MUST-HAVE resource for anyone interested in learning Sumerian, though it lacks the depth of the recent works of Jagersma and Foxvog.
From $45 – $91.51
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An introduction to the Sumerian era of human innovation, detailing the development of the written word, with insight into its metaphysical significance.
Readability: Easy
Written for: Everyone
Information: Limited
Price: $10 – $30
A truly simple beginners guide to learning Sumerian, which I highly recommend as a companion guide to my Simple Sumerian Langue Lessons. A must-have for anyone just starting out on their Sumerian language journey! Check out the authors’ YouTube channel here.
From $50 – $107
A Sumerian Language manual/textbook, based primarily on the Ur III period. Contains 27 lessons with sign-lists, vocabulary, text, images, and more.
From $14.50 – $33.99
A compilation of 15 works written by the director of Assyriology at Ecole Pratique Des Hautes Etudes, Paris.
The Sumerian Language - And Introduction to Its History and Grammatical Structure - Marie-Louise Thomsen (Copenhagen 1984)
Readability: Moderate
Written for: Linguists
Information: Extensive
Price: $10 – $30
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A MUST-HAVE resource for anyone interested in learning Sumerian, though it lacks the depth of the recent works of Jagersma and Foxvog.
Online Sumerian Language Resources
Usability: Easy
For: Everyone
“The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform inscriptions dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC.” – From the CDLI’s About Page https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/about
Usability: Easy
For: Everyone
“By offering a versatile platform for editing tablets and texts and for annotating editions and photographs, and a suite of tools for epigraphic, lexicographic and historiographic research, it aims dramatically to accelerate the pace at which the written documentation of ancient Mesopotamia is recovered to the modern world.” -EBL Homepage
Usability: Moderate
For: Everyone
“The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the University of Oxford, comprises a selection of nearly 400 literary compositions recorded on sources which come from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and date to the late third and early second millennia BCE.” – ETCSL Homepage
Usability: Moderate
For: Sumerian Linguists
“The PSD is preparing an exhaustive dictionary of the Sumerian language which aims to be useful to non-specialists as well as Sumerologists. In addition, we are developing tools and datasets for working with the Sumerian language and its text-corpora. All materials will be made freely available on this website.” – ePSD Homepage
Usability: Moderate
For: Everyone
“Oracc is a collaborative effort to develop a complete corpus of cuneiform whose rich annotation and open licensing support the next generation of scholarly research. Created by Steve Tinney, Oracc is steered by Jamie Novotny, Eleanor Robson, Tinney, and Niek Veldhuis.” – ORACC Homepage
Usability: Easy
For: Everyone
“This Oracc signlist provides a simple lookup to find the sign-pages; from the sign-pages you can find homophones for values, compounds in which signs occur, and other information depending on the project configuration.” – ORACC Signlist
Usability: Easy
For: Everyone
My Simple Sumerian Language Lessons are designed for beginners and non-linguists! These simple, bite-sized lessons are designed to take you from beginner to expert in no time!
Usability: Easy
For: Everyone
An easy-to-use searchable database of Sumerian words, based on the comprehensive work of John A. Halloran.
Mesopotamian History
From $1.25 – $30
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Cultural, political, social, and economic history of Mesopotamia, ranging from pre-history to the common era.
From $5 – $28.41
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A scholarly and detailed account of Mesopotamian civilization, most-notably of the Sumerians, Assyrians, and Babylonians.
From $6.25 – $70.89
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A survey of Mesopotamian development and history, including cultural, economic, political, and technological achievements of the people of the ancient Near East.
From $34.76 – $48.71
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A comprehensive and up-to-date work on the multicultural civilizations of Mesopotamia.
Mesopotamian Religion, Myth, and Magic
Readability: Moderate
Written For: Everyone
Information: Excellent
Price: $21 – $74
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A compilation of Near East and Western material based on medical, divinatory, ritual texts and more.
An excellent reference for anyone interested in magical practice in ancient Mesopotamia.
From $23.28 – $89.95
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An easy-to-read dictionary of Near Eastern myth from Mesopotamia. Includes deity myths, worship, and temples, as well as descriptions of character and roles in mythological narrative.
From $3.47 – 13.39
An award-winning translation of the oldest story recorded in writing.
Readability: Easy
Written For: Everyone
Information: Excellent
Price: $9 – $22
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An abridged paperback selection of Foster’s two-volume work on Assyrian and Babylonian literature, Before the Muses; perfect for university-level courses.
One of my preferred mythological compilations–translations being more in-line with my own.
From $15.80 – $50.94
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An introduction to the customs and beliefs of ancient Mesopotamia, including religious, mythological, and magical sources.
Readability: Easy
Written for: Everyone
Information: Excellent
Price: $4 – $15
An updated translation of some of the most important Mesopotamian myths, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Descent of Ishtar, the Epic of Erra, Nergal and Ereshkigal, and more.
A fantastic and accurate resource. I took off half a star due to creative differences in some of the translations, but I am totally nitpicking.
From $7.01 – $37.59
A beautiful recreation of ancient Near East spirituality and religion. Includes detailed evidence for the Mesopotamian roots of Western civilization.
Alternative History
Readability: Moderate
Written for: Everyone
Information: Exhaustive
Price: $0 – $46
This follow-up to the revolutionary Worlds in Collision details the geological evidence for a extraterrestrial impact in within human memory.
Thoroughly details the evidence for cosmic impact/interaction as the cause of global cataclysm in the mythological record.
Readability: Easy
Written for: Everyone
Information: Exhaustive
Price: $7 – $250
Graham Hancock brings new evidence to light regarding the lost history of mankind. If you didn’t believe in advanced civilizations prior to the last ice age, you will be after reading this masterpiece!
An ABSOLUTELY MUST-READ for every human being on earth!!!
Readability: Easy
Written for: Everyone
Information: Exhaustive
Price: $0 – $24
The follow-up to Graham Hancock’s groundbreaking Fingerprints of the Gods. A must read for anyone interested in humanity’s prehistoric past.
I read this before Fingerprints, which is probably why I like it better.
Readability: Easy
Written for: Everyone
Information: Extensive
Price: $5 – $25
A phenomenal book proving the true age of the Sphinx, as well as detailing the evidence for Coronal Mass Ejection in the past.
An excellent book full of evidence for the dating of the sphinx as well as past CMEs.
Readability: Moderate
Written for: Everyone
Information: Exhaustive
Price: $0
The revolutionary and paradigm-shattering book amassing and dissecting the whole recorded history. Discover the uncanny similarities between accounts of cosmic destruction found in the religious, cultural, and historical record around the world.
This book rocked the scientific community for a reason. Some of the info is dated, but much of it remains true.
Personal Development
Readability: Easy
Written for: Everyone
Information: Extensive
Price: $10 -$37
I’ve bought this book for people, knowing it will change their lives forever… and they don’t read it 😟 PLEASE read this (audio)book! I guarantee you it will change your life forever! It’s his most recent book, and includes the most up-to-date research.
Readability: Easy
Written for: Everyone
Information: Extensive
Price: $10 – $52
My third favorite of Dr. Dispenza’s books, right after Becoming Supernatural and You are the Placebo. An amazing read!
Readability: Easy
Written for: Everyone
Information: Extensive
Price: $10 – $46
This is my second favorite book by Dr. Joe Dispenza. I won’t bore you with the details, but I had one of those lightbulb moments listening to the audiobook, and it literally changed my life.
This book changed me on a fundamental level, and I know it will change you, too!