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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An essay on the use of salt for agricultural purposes
Cuthbert Johnson
1820
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An essay on the vital and other involuntary motions of animals
Robert Whytt
1751
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An essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other marine productions of the like kind, commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland
John Ellis
1755
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An experimental enquiry into the effects of tonics, and other medicinal substances on the cohesion of the animal fibre
Adair Crawford
1816
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An experimental research into surgical shock
George Washington Crile
1899
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An humble attempt to investigate and defend the scripture doctrine, concerning the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
James Purves
1780
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An impartial enquiry into the existence and nature of God
Samuel Colliber
1718
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An inaugural dissertation on the production of animal heat
Lyman Spalding
1797
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An index to the generic and trivial names of animals, described by Linnaeus, in the 10th and 12th editions of his "Systema naturae."
Charles Davies Sherborn
1899
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An inquiry how far the vital and animal actions of the more perfect animals can be accounted for independent of the brain
Thomas Simson
1752
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An inquiry into the comparative forces of the extensor and flexor muscles, connected with the joints of the human body
Julius Jeffreys
1822
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An inquiry into the rot in sheep; and other animals; in which a connection is pointed out between it, and some obscure and important disorders, in the human constitution
Edward Harrison
1804
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An introduction to animal morphology and systematic zoology
Alexander Macalister
1876
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An introduction to the classification of animals
Thomas Henry Huxley
1869
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An introduction to the modern classification of insects
John Obadiah Westwood
1839
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An introduction to the reading of the holy Bible, by a lady [lady F. Mayne].
Frances Mayne
1775
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An introduction to the systematic zoology and morphology of vertebrate animals
Alexander Macalister
1878
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An outline of the Catholic truth, with meditations thereon
Outline
1873
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Analogies of organized beings ...
J. S. Duncan
1831
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Anatomical reflections on the form of animals and the new opinions of Henry Cline, Esq. Surgeon
John Hunt
1806
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Animal Magnetism: Physiological Observation
Rudolf Peter Heinrich Heidenhain
1880
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Animal Mechanism: A Treatise on Terrestrial and Aerial Locomotion
Étienne-Jules Marey
1874
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Animal and vegetable physiology
Peter Mark Roget
1839
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Animal biography
William Bingley
1805