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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... Autobiographical sketches and personal recollections
George T. Angell
1884
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A Christian apology
Paul Schanz
1891
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A Collection of Interesting Tracts: Explaining Several Points of Scripture ...
[name Missing]
1850
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A Concise System of Theology: On the Basis of the Shorter Catechism
Alexander Smith Paterson, Duncan Macfarlan
1848
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A Cornish fauna
Richard Quiller Couch
1844
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A Defence of the Graham System of Living: Or, Remarks on Diet and Regimen. Dedicated to the ...
Sylvester Graham
1835
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A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, the Obligations of Natural Religion, and ...
Samuel Clarke, Joseph Butler
1823
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A Discourse concerning the being and attributes of God, the obligations of natural religion, and the truth and certainty of the Christian revelation
Samuel Clarke
1711
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A History of Greece from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great by George Grote
1869
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A Manual of Instruction for Confirmation Classes
Morgan Dix, James De Koven
1868
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A Manual of animal vaccination preceded by considerations on vaccination in general
Evariste W. Warlomont
1886
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A Modern Prose Translation of the Ancient Poem of Guillaume de Guileville Entitled, The ...
Guillaume de Déguileville
1859
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A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship: Used in Portbury and Tickenham Churches
[author not identified]
1830
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A Sermon, Delivered at the Installation of the Rev. Sebastian Streeter, as Pastor of the First ...
Russell Streeter, Hosea Ballou, Thomas Jones
1824
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A System of natural history
Augustus A. Gould, Baron Georges Cuvier, J. Stark, Alexander Wetmore, Louis Bennett Bishop
1834
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A Treatise on the Divine nature
Humphrey Moore
1824
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A Vindication of the worship of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Supreme God, in all the dispensations, patriarchal, mosaick and Christian
Gerard De Gols
1726
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A Volume of Sermons: Designed to be Used in Religious Meetings when There is Not Present a ...
Daniel Atkinson Clark
1826
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A Word of Encouragement to the Friends of Truth
[name Missing]
1859
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A brief review of ancient and modern philosophy, in its connection with scepticism and religion ...
Robert Deuchar
1864
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A brief sketch of the present state and fututre expectations of the Jews
Ridley Haim Herschell
1842
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A catalogue of the birds, beasts, fishes, insects, plants, &c. contained in Edwards's natural history in seven volumes ...
Carl Linnaeus
1776
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A collection of the promises of Scripture, under their proper heads
Samuel Clarke
1803
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A common ground for Field and Ingersoll
Lewis Naphtali Dembitz
1887