Vampires Or Gods? by William Meyers

List of Chapters with references

Vampires Or Gods? is based upon readings from many ancient historical documents. Included here are links to the texts from which excerpts were taken, as well as the listed Further Readings at the ends of each chapter. Whenever possible, links to texts available on the internet are provided. Otherwise the link is to Amazon.com, where you can order the book.

Osiris and Isis

• Egyptian Book of the Dead
  Osiris by E.A. Wallis Budge
  Moralia by Plutarch
  Diodorus Siculus

Cybele

• When God Was A Woman by Merlin Stone
  The White Goddess by Robert Graves
  Crowns of Martyrdom (Peristephanon Liber) by Prudentius

Mithras

• Rig Veda
  The Mysteries of Mithra by Franz Cumont
  Mihir Yast (within the Zend-Avesta) [out of print: try a library]

Dionysus

• The Bacchae by Euripides
  Diodorus Siculus [scattered through many volumes: try a library]
  Dionysos, Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life by C. Kerenyi 0691029156
  Moralia by Plutarch
  Metamorphoses by Ovid

Hercules

• Heracles by Euripides
  Children of Heracles by Euripides
  Diodorus Siculus
  Moralia by Plutarch
  Metamorphoses by Ovid
  The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
  Shield of Heracles by Hesiod
  Idylls by Theocritus
  Description of Greece byPausanias
  Trichinian Women by Sophocles

Krishna

• Bhagavad Gita
  The Puranas [best found at a library]

Romulus (Quirinus)

• History of Rome by Livy
  Metamorphoses by Ovid
  Cicero
  Lives by Plutarch [at any library]

Caligula

• Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius Tranquillus
  Jewish Antiquities by Josephus
  The Emperor Gaius by J. P. V. D. Balsdon [out of print; try a library]
  The Embasy to Gaius by Philo

Quetzalcoatl

• Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire by David Carrasco
  Ancient Mexican Art by Ferdinand Anton [out of print; try a library]
  The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Jesus

• Jewish Antiquities by Josephus
  The Holy Bible
  Ecclesiastical History by Eusebius
  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  The True Authorship of the New Testament by Abelard Reuchlin
  The Apostolic Fathers translated by Kirsopp Lake or Online Versions
  Crowns of Martyrdom (Peristephanon Liber) by Prudentius

Apollonius

• The Life of Apollonius of Tyana by Philostratus

Chang Ling

• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
  The Writings of Kwang Tze [try a library]

Dracula

• Dracula, A Biography of Vlad the Impaler 1431-1476 by Radu Florescu and Raymond T. McNally
  History of the Roumanians by R. W. Seton-Watson [try a library]