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
Die deutsche Götterlehre
Johann Wilhelm Wolf
1852German
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Dyâus Asurâ, Ahura Mazda und die Asuras
Peter von Bradke
1885German
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Geschichte der herrschenden ideen des islams
Alfred Freiherr von Kremer, Alfred von Kremer
1868German
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Griechische Götterlehre
Emil Braun
1854German
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Götterlehre, oder, Mythologische Dichtungen der Alten
Karl Philipp Moritz
1791German
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Hypatia von Alexandria
Wolfgang Alexander Meyer
1886German
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Irmin, seine Saule, seine Strasse und sein Wagen
Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
1817German
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Les ceremonies chinoises conformé a l'idolatrie grecque et romaine
Noël Alexandre
1721French
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Magnetismus und Hypnotismus
Gustav Wilhelm Gessmann, Gustav Wilhelm Geßmann
1886German
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Mémoires d'un magnétiseur
Auguste Lassaigne, Henri Delaage
1851NOT
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Petri Poiret Cogitationum rationalium de Deo, anima et malo libri quatuor
Pierre Poiret
1685Latin
The alchemical feminine
M. E. Warlick
2025
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Theo-mythologia historica, das ist, Gründlich- und historische Ausslegung der poetischen Götter-Fabeln
Charles Louis de Launay
1740German
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Theologie des Heidenthums
Ferdinand Stiefelhagen
1858German
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Tractatus de antiqua ecclesiae disciplina in divinis celebrandis officiis
Edmond Martène
1706Latin
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Versuch die scheinbare Magie des thierischen Magnetismus aus physiologischen und psychischen Gesezen zu erklären
C. A. Eschenmayer, Karl Adolf von Eschenmayer
1816German
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Vollständiges Wörterbuch der Mythologie aller Völker
Wilhelm Vollmer, Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Vollmer
1851German
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Zeus
C. L. Dicke
1850NOT
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
1961
What the Animals Do and Say
Eliza Lee Follen
1870
The Gruffalo
Julia Donaldson
1999
Mossflower
Brian Jacques
1988
Mythology
Edith Hamilton, Jim Tierney
1940
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr, Eric Carle
1967