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
The genesis of life and thought
Thomas H. Musick
1892
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The god-idea of the ancients
Eliza Burt Gamble
1897
- Read free
The gospel of the Kingdom of God
Henry Dana Ward
1874
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The great question
Henry A Boardman
1799
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The heavenly Father
Ernest Naville
1865
- Read free
The heliotropium
Jeremias Drexel
1630
- Read free
The history of the great republic
Jesse T. Peck
1868
- Read free
The illustrated stock doctor and live-stock encyclopedia
J. Russell Manning
1880
- Read free
The immanent God, and other sermons
A. W. Jackson
1889
- Read free
The invertebrate fauna of the Firth of Forth
George Leslie
1881
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The justice and necessity of the war with our American colonies examined
Dr. Alexander Carlyle
1777
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The kingdom (Basileia)
George Dana Boardman
1899
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The kingdom and its resources
C. W. E. Body
1894
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The kingdom of God
Laurence Henry Schwab
1897
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The kingdom of God Biblically and historically considered
James S. Candlish
1884
- Read free
The kingdom of God and problems of to-day
Alexander Sutherland
1898
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The kingdom of God, or, Christ's teaching according to the synoptical gospels
Alexander Balmain Bruce
1889
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The kingdom of God, or, Kingdom
James Carmichael
1866
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The knowledge of God, objectively considered
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
1858
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The love of God and of Jesus for souls and the blessedness of intercession for them
Edward Bouverie Pusey
1878
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The method of the divine government
James McCosh
1850
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The modern farrier
A. Lawson
1822
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The moral fables of Robert Henryson
Robert Henryson
1832
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The natural history of animals
Claude Perrault
1688