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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American types of animal life
George Jackson Mivart
1891
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An Account of the remains of the worship of Priapus
William Sir Hamilton, Richard Payne Knight
1786
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An Act to amend the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894
United Kingdom
1896
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An Analysis of the principles of Divine Government, in a series of conversations
Abel Pearson
1832
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An Arctic province
Henry Wood Elliott
1886
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An Attempt to Prove the Existence and Absolute Perfection of the Supreme Unoriginated Being: In ..
Hugh Hamilton
1784
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An Impartial Enquiry Into the Existence and Nature of God: Being a Modest Essay Towards a More ..
Samuel Colliber
1735
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An Inquiry Into the Proper Mode of Rendering the Word God in Translating the Sacred Scriptures ..
Walter Henry Medhurst
1848
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An abridgment of the catechism of perseverance, tr. by L. Ward
France Church of
1854
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An account of the deep-sea Madreporaria collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship "Investigator"
Alfred William Alcock
1898
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An account of the national anthem entitled God save the King!
Richard Clark
1822
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An address to the public, and especially the clergy, on the near approach of the glorious, everlasting kingdom of God on earth
J. Litch
1841
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An analysis of the life-form in art
Harrison Allen
1875
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An antidote against atheism; or, An appeal to the naturall faculties of the minde of man, whether there be not a God
Henry More
1655
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An apologie of the power and providence of God in the government of the world. Or an examination and censure of the common errour touching natures perpetuall and universall decay, divided into foure bookes: ...
George Hakewill
1627
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An essay in refutation of atheism
Orestes Augustus Brownson
1882
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An essay on classification
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
1859
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An essay on religion demonstrating that God's being and existing as a Trinity in Unity, and his attributes, are self-evident .. or plain reasons for believing the great mysteries of the true Christian relition ... introduced by a ... dissertation on thought ...
Philo-Veritas Pseud
1737
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An essay on the employment of physiological characters in the classification of animals
Edward Newman
1857
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An essay on the equity of divine government, and the sovereignty of divine grace
Edward Williams
1809
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An essay on the knowledge of the ancients respecting the art of shoeing the horse, and of the probable period of the commencement of this art
Bracy Clark
1831
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An essay on the proper rendering of the words Elohim and Theos into the Chinese language
A. P. Happer
1877
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An essay on the proper rendering of the words Elohim and Theos into the Chinese language
William Jones Bp Boone, William Jones Boone
1848
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An essay on the theory of the production of animal heat and on its application in the treatment of cutaneous eruptions, inflammations, and some other diseases
Edward Rigby
1785