Reading Celtic Twilight is like spending evenings with William B. Yeats as he quietly and expressively relates tales told to him by the people of the lands he wandered through as a younger man full of the passion of mysticism and the people of his beloved Ireland.

The Panchatantra (Five Principles) of ancient India is a collection of fables originally written in Sanskrit. It is believed to have been written by Vishnu Sharma.

Amun had many aspects in his role as a deity. At first he was an earthly god, in human form, yet invisible. His name, Amun, meant "Hidden One", for he represented the essential and hidden.

The German goddess of spring, fertility, and rebirth is considered by many to be Eostre, sometimes referred to as Ostara. Some say Eostre is the ancient Norse goddess of spring. Both the name Eostre and Ostara are often used in Germanic Neopaganism.