ANCESTOR CONNECTION, PRACTICES, & RELATED MATERIALS
Afterlife and Ancestors, Tairis Gaelic Polytheist Website
Lora O’Brien, Your Irish Ancestry, Irish Pagan School, 2018
Offerings in Gaelic Polytheism (sections on offerings to ancestors and the right way to make alcoholic offerings in North America) An Chuallacht Ghaol Naofa 2017
Mallorie Vaudoise, Honoring Your Ancestors, A Guide to Ancestral Veneration, Llewellen, Woodbury, 2019
Nimue Brown, Druidry and the Ancestors, Finding a Place In Our Own Story, Moon Books, Winchester, 2012
Patti Wigington, Badass Ancestors: Finding Your Power with Ancestral Guides, Llewellyn Publications, 2020
Phoenix La Fae, What Is Remembered, Lives: Developing Relationships with Deities, Ancestors, & the Fae, Llewellyn Publications, 2019
Raven Grimassi, Communing with the Ancestors: Your Spirit Guides, Bloodline Allies, and the Cycle of Reincarnation, Weiser Books, 2016
Ralph Metzner, The Well of Remembrance, Rediscovering the Earth Wisdom Myths of Northern Europe, Shambhala, Boston & London, 1994
Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts, Central Recovery Press, 2017
Starhawk & M. Macha NightMare, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over, Harper Collins, 1997
Via Hedera, All Your Grandmas: Ancestor Veneration, Mixed-raced Identity and the A word, 2017
I'm going to drop a note here to say that there are several books here on ancestor veneration that serve the pagan community broadly, but I'm largely unsatisfied with offerings on ancestor work and ancestor veneration for northwestern European-based traditions and spiritual practices; but this is also in large part due to the fact that I don't believe what I'm searching for particularly exists. There are likely materials for Western and Eastern European practices that I don't know about. While I'm not a reconstructionist, I really yearn for some grounded, rooted, in-culture references for ancestor veneration practices such as what we see in, and what we've largely learned from, African Diasporic traditions. The most satisfying read on actual veneration practices on this list for me is Mallorie Vadoise's Honoring Your Ancestors, which has ample room to include and overlay our own cosmologies or worldviews, and cultural traditions. As such, I very greatly appreciate her work and writing in this book as I think it's really helpful for most of us.
Lora O’Brien, Your Irish Ancestry, Irish Pagan School, 2018
Offerings in Gaelic Polytheism (sections on offerings to ancestors and the right way to make alcoholic offerings in North America) An Chuallacht Ghaol Naofa 2017
Mallorie Vaudoise, Honoring Your Ancestors, A Guide to Ancestral Veneration, Llewellen, Woodbury, 2019
Nimue Brown, Druidry and the Ancestors, Finding a Place In Our Own Story, Moon Books, Winchester, 2012
Patti Wigington, Badass Ancestors: Finding Your Power with Ancestral Guides, Llewellyn Publications, 2020
Phoenix La Fae, What Is Remembered, Lives: Developing Relationships with Deities, Ancestors, & the Fae, Llewellyn Publications, 2019
Raven Grimassi, Communing with the Ancestors: Your Spirit Guides, Bloodline Allies, and the Cycle of Reincarnation, Weiser Books, 2016
Ralph Metzner, The Well of Remembrance, Rediscovering the Earth Wisdom Myths of Northern Europe, Shambhala, Boston & London, 1994
Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts, Central Recovery Press, 2017
Starhawk & M. Macha NightMare, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over, Harper Collins, 1997
Via Hedera, All Your Grandmas: Ancestor Veneration, Mixed-raced Identity and the A word, 2017
I'm going to drop a note here to say that there are several books here on ancestor veneration that serve the pagan community broadly, but I'm largely unsatisfied with offerings on ancestor work and ancestor veneration for northwestern European-based traditions and spiritual practices; but this is also in large part due to the fact that I don't believe what I'm searching for particularly exists. There are likely materials for Western and Eastern European practices that I don't know about. While I'm not a reconstructionist, I really yearn for some grounded, rooted, in-culture references for ancestor veneration practices such as what we see in, and what we've largely learned from, African Diasporic traditions. The most satisfying read on actual veneration practices on this list for me is Mallorie Vadoise's Honoring Your Ancestors, which has ample room to include and overlay our own cosmologies or worldviews, and cultural traditions. As such, I very greatly appreciate her work and writing in this book as I think it's really helpful for most of us.
DNA, ANCESTRY, & CULTURE
Amina Zarrugh, Luis A. Romero, and Paige Buell; Racializing DNA: How People Interpret their Ancestry Tests, Racism Review (online), 2022
Kim Tallbear, Native American DNA, Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science, University of Minnesota Press, 2013
Kim TallBear, Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Cherokee ancestry is a form of violence, High Country News, 2019 (online)
Gareth Thomas, The DNA Did Not Say That, Path of the Pagan Warrior, 2019
More African-Americans Are Learning Their Roots With Genetic Testing, All Things Considered, NPR (radio) 2016
Sorry, that DNA test doesn't make you Indigenous, BC Radio The 180, 2016
Kim Tallbear, Native American DNA, Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science, University of Minnesota Press, 2013
Kim TallBear, Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Cherokee ancestry is a form of violence, High Country News, 2019 (online)
Gareth Thomas, The DNA Did Not Say That, Path of the Pagan Warrior, 2019
More African-Americans Are Learning Their Roots With Genetic Testing, All Things Considered, NPR (radio) 2016
Sorry, that DNA test doesn't make you Indigenous, BC Radio The 180, 2016