Tradition 35 of 35
Ancient religions, animism, and ritual
Ancient and traditional religious systems, animist and polytheist belief, deities, sacred rites, mystery cults, and historical ritual practices that contextualize magical and esoteric traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 14,367
- Earliest
- 1100
- to 2026
- Read free
- 44%
- 6,362 with public full text
- With covers
- 49%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match4,877
- Metadata match260
- Query match9,225
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- God2.1K
- Animals1.9K
- Early works to 18001.8K
- Juvenile fiction907
- Rites and ceremonies891
- History810
- Juvenile literature779
- Providence and government of God752
- Sermons669
- Funeral rites and ceremonies624
- Conduct of life615
- Religion557
- Bible479
- Children471
- Animal welfare462
- Christianity424
- animal magnetism417
- Children's stories380
- Fiction360
- Christian life357
- Natural history339
- Attributes334
- Zoology321
- Cult314
Top languages
- English7,932 · 55%
- German1,498 · 10%
- French1,335 · 9%
- Latin1,255 · 9%
- Italian437 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Harrison Weir40 in this tradition46 books
- Religious Tract Society32 in this tradition66 books
- France. Convention nationale31 books
- Augustine of Hippo26 in this tradition46 books
- Madeline Leslie25 in this tradition26 books
- Samuel G. Goodrich24 in this tradition34 books
- Franz Anton Mesmer23 in this tradition49 books
- Catholic Church22 in this tradition50 books
- Maximillien De Lafayette22 in this tradition24 books
- Martin Luther21 in this tradition129 books
- François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon21 in this tradition49 books
- Emanuel Swedenborg20 in this tradition84 books
14,367 books
- Read free
I believe in God the Father Almighty
John Henry Barrows
1892
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Illustrations showing condition of fur-seal rookeries in 1895 and method of killing seals
Charles Haskins Townsend
1896
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Insects affecting domestic animals
Herbert Osborn
1896
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Introductory lecture concerning the nature of the sacred scriptures according to their coherent spiritual interpretation
Believer in the word of God
1882
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Iohannis Wycliffe De dominio divino libri tres
John Wycliffe, Reginald Lane Poole, Richard Fitzralph, Wyclif Society
1890
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Is God Knowable?
James Iverach
1884
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Itinerário
Jerónimo Lobo
1669
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Jehovah-Jireh
William S. Plumer
1866
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Joannis Pierii Valeriani Bellunensis Hieroglyphica, sive, De sacris Aegyptiorum aliarumque gentium literis, commentariorum libri LVIII
Pierio Valeriano, Valeriano Bolzani, Giovanni Pierio
1556Latin
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Kamilaroi and Kurnai ; Group-marriage and relationship, and marriage by elopement
Lorimer Fison, Alfred William Howitt
1880
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Kitāb al-farāʾid
Moses Maimonides
1515Latin
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Kunstformen der Natur
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
1899
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L'évolution mentale chez les animaux / par George John Romanes. Suivi d'un essai posthume sur l'instinct / par Charles Darwin
George John Romanes
1883
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Lake Superior
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
1850
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Lazarus redivivus, or, A discovery of the trials and triumphs that accompany the vvork of God in and about his people
N. Blakie
1671
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Le secret de Marie dévoilé à l'âme pieuse
Louis De Montfort
1800
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Lectures on human and animal psychology
Wilhelm Max Wundt
1894
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Lectures on the moral government of God
Nathaniel W. Taylor
1859
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Lectures on the origin and growth of the conception of God as illustrated by anthropology and history
Eugène comte Goblet d'Alviella
1892
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Lectures on the pantheistic idea of an impersonal-substance-deity
Morgan Dix
1864
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Les mystères d'Éleusis
Paul François Foucart
1914French
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Life in ponds and streams
William S. Furneaux
1896
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Man's knowledge of man and of God
Richard Travers Smith
1886
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Manual of devotion to good St. Anne (St-Anne de Beaupré)
Redemptorist father
1891