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
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Report of the British agent to the Russian seal islands under the provisional agreement entered into between Her Majesty's government and that of Russia for the protection of the seal fisheries during 1893
R. N. Venning
1894
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Report on the condition of the fur-seal fisheries of the Pribylov Islands in 1890
Henry Wood Elliott
1893
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Report upon the fauna of Liverpool Bay and the neighboring seas
Liverpool Marine Biology Committee
1886
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Retrospect and prospect sermons
Louis George Mylne
1893
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Revealed religion expounded by its relations to the moral being of God
Henry Cotterill
1884
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Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America
A. E. Verrill
1870
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Roman society in the last century of the Western empire
Samuel Dill
1899
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Sacrificial worship of the Old Testament
J. H. Kurtz
1863
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Saint Bernard on the love of God
Bernard of Clairvaux
1881
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Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux
P.-J. Stahl, J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac, P Bernard, Jules Janin, Edouard Lemoine, Charles Nodier, George Sand
1842
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Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska
David Starr Jordan
1898
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Select letters
Augustine of Hippo
1541
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Short Sunday service for travelling parties
Dawson Brothers
1877
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Sinners in the hands of an angry God.
Jonathan Edwards
1742
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Sixteen revelations of divine love
Julian of Norwich, George Tyrrell, Serenus Cressy
1843
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Society the redeemed form of man
Henry James, Sr Henry James
1879
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Special report on diseases of the horse
United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
1890
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Spiele der Tiere
Karl Groos
1898
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Spinozas Gottesbegriff
Elmer E. Powell
1899
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St. Agnes, virgin and martyr
Cornelius Abp O'Brien
1887
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St. Thomas manual
Henry Joseph Pflugbeil
1887
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Steadfastness in religion and loyalty recommended, in a sermon preached before the legislature of His Majesty's province of Nova-Scotia
Charles Inglis
1793
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Stock keeping for amateurs
William H. Ablett
1881
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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol. V
Havelock Ellis
1906