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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Annual report of Captain A.A. Humphreys, topographical engineers, in charge of Office of Explorations and Surveys, War Department, December, 1858
United States. Office of Explorations and Surveys
1859
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Annual report of the Trustees of the State Museum of Natural History for the year ..
New York State Museum of Natural History
1885
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Anthologia sacra; or, Select theological extracts, selected and arranged by B. Gilpin and W.H ...
Anthologia
1832
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Ants, bees, and wasps
John Lubbock
1882
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Arctic zoology ...
Thomas Pennant
1784
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Arguments Drawn from the Attributes of God: In Support of the Doctrine of Universal Salvation
John Mather Austin
1844
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Arguments to prove the being of God
John Hancock, Robert Boyle, Brabazon Aylmer, John rector of St. Margaret's Lothbury Hancock
1707
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Assertion versus argument
Samuel Sir Wilks
1882
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Atheism and pantheism
Charles Murray Nairne
1848
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Aërial locomotion
Coughtrie
1875
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Baptist Preacher: Original Monthly
[name Missing]
1844
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Barren mares
Charles C. Lyford
1891
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Bases of religious belief, historic and ideal
Charles Mellen Tyler
1897
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Battle echoes
George Barton Ide
1866
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Beast and man in India : a popular sketch of Indian animals in their relations with the people
John Lockwood Kipling
1891
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Behavior and neurosis
Jules Hymen Masserman
1857
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Benedicite, or the Song of the three children
George Chaplin Child
1870
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Better than men
Rush C. Hawkins
1896
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Bible natural history
F. O. Morris
1849
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Bible principles
William Patton
1879
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Bible stories, selected from the Old Testament, familiarized for the use of ...
J. Hatchard and Son
1822
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Biological Experimentation, Its Function and Limits: Including Answers to Nine Questions ...
Benjamin Ward Sir Richardson
1896
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Bipeds and quadrupeds
Harry Hieover
1853
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Bird-architecture
James Rennie
1844