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
A synopsis of the Scripture proofs of the Trinity
Daniel Bagot
1831
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A ternary of paradoxes
Jean Baptiste van Helmont
1650
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A theodicy; or, Vindication of the divine glory, as manifested in the constitution and government of the moral world
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
1853
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A treatise on cattle
John Mills
1776
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A treatise on the animal alkaloids, cadaveric and vital, or, The ptomaines and leucomaines chemically, physiologically and pathologically considered, in relation to scientific medicine
A. M. Brown
1887
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A treatise on the choice, buying, and general management of live stock; comprising delineations and description of the principal breeds...
William Youatt
1810
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A treatise on the geography and classification of animals
William Swainson
1835
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A treatise on the records of the creation
John Bird Sumner
1818
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A treatise on the records of the creation and on the moral attributes of the creator
John Bird Sumner
1816
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A vindication of divine providence
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, J.H.B. de Saint-Pierre
1797
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A wheel in the middle of a wheel: or, Harmony and connexion of various acts of Divine Providence
Robert Smith
1759
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A year at the shore
Philip Henry Gosse
1865
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A zoological pocket-book
Emil Selenka
1890
- Read free
Acclimatisation
George Bennett
1862
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Actinologia Britannica
Philip Henry Gosse
1860
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Additional observations on the parasites of man and domestic animals
A. E. Verrill
1870
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Addresses of Hon. Norman J. Colman, U. S. commissioner of agriculture, and Dr. D. E. Salmon, chief of the Bureau of animal industry, before the third National convention of stockmen, held at Chicago, Ill., November 17th and 18th, 1885
Norman J. Colman
1897
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Admonitions from the Depths of the Earth: Or the Fall of Ray Potter; in Twenty Four Letters
Nicholas G. Potter, Ray Potter
1838
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Adolphus
James George Rodger
1896
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Aetiology of tuberculosis
Robert Koch
1890
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Age of the domestic animals
Rush Shippen Huidekoper
1891
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Agricultural chemistry
Alfred Sibson
1867
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Along the Florida reef
Charles Frederick Holder
1892
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Alphabet of natural theology, for the use of beginners
James Rennie
1834