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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Birth and Baptism: Discourses of First Principles
Ephraim Chamberlain Cummings
1873
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Blue book for the use of subordinate divisions
Sons of Temperance of North America
1868
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Book of Praise
Charles S. Robinson, Church of the Pilgrims (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
1865
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Book of Psalms Translated Out of the Original Hebrew: And with the Former ...
[author not identified]
1881
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Book of Public Worship: For the Use of the New Church Signified by the New Jerusalem in the ...
General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America
1842
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Book of Worship for the Christian Church
James Martineau, Thomas Sadler
1883
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Book of Worship: For the Congregation and the Home. Taken Principally from the Old and New ...
Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass .), James Freeman Clarke
1852
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Brain and mind, or, Mental science considered in accordance with the principles of phrenology ...
Henry Shipton Drayton, James McNeill
1879
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Brehm's Life of animals
Alfred Edmund Brehm
1895
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British animals extinct within historic times : with some account of British wild white cattle
Harting James Edmund
1880
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Buddhism in its connexion with Brahmanism and Hinduism and in its contrast with Christianity
Monier Monier-Williams
1889
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Buddhist masses for the dead at Amoy
J. J. M. de Groot
1885
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Bulletin no. 1-103
United States. Bureau of statistics. Dept. of agriculture
1890
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Calvin on secret providence
Jean Calvin
1840
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Canary birds
Karl Russ
1880
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Cassell's concise natural history
E. Perceval Wright
1885
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Cassell's natural history
Peter Martin Duncan
1876
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Catalogue of Seals and Whales in the British Museum
John Edward Gray
1871
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Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum
British Museum. Dept . of Zoology
1866
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Catalogue of the Australian stalk- and sessile-eyed Crustacea
William A. Haswell
1882
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Catalogue of the British echinoderms in the British Museum
British Museum. Dept . of Zoology
1892
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Catalogue of the British echinoderms in the British Museum (Natural History) by F. Jeffrey Bell
British Museum. Dept . of Zoology
1892
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Catalogue of the animals preserved in the Museum of the Zoological Society, September 1829
Zoological Society of London
1829
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Catalogue of the collection to illustrate the animal resources and the fisheries of the United States
United States National Museum
1879