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Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth (Penguin Modern Classics)

William Yeats

This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats’s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Through his researches on Irish folklore, Yeats attempted to create...

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Behind the Bastards

It was mentioned as the second best-selling book in Nazi Germany and a significant example of how Blavatsky's ideas were adopted and adapted by the Nazi ideology, particularly regarding the concept of a Hyperborean Atlantis and racial hierarchy.

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Alfred Rosenberg's book, The Myth of the 20th Century, which he publishes in 1930, is the second best selling book in Nazi Germany under Mein Kampf.

— Episode: Part Four: Helena Blavatsky: the woman w...

Episode: Part Four: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspire...

It was mentioned as the second best-selling book in Nazi Germany and a significant example of how Blavatsky's ideas were adopted and adapted by the Nazi ideology, particularly regarding the concept of a Hyperborean Atlantis and racial hierarchy.

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Alfred Rosenberg's book, The Myth of the 20th Century, which he publishes in 1930, is the second best selling book in Nazi Germany under Mein Kampf.

And his whole book is a plagiarism of the secret doctrine.

Like he's basically taken the secret doctrine and doing what Blavatsky did with The Coming Race.

He opens the book by restating the myth of a Hyperborean Atlantis and insisting that the existence of a, quote, prehistoric Nordic cultural center was the basis of all Nazi race science.

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