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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De profanis et sacris veteribus ritibus
Giovanni Battista Casali
1644Latin
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The Buddhist praying-wheel
William Simpson
1896
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The consummation of a good man's life
Hiram P. Arms, Hiram Hiram Phelps Arms
1856
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The freemason's monitor
Z. A. Davis, Z. A. [from old catalog] Davis
1843
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Ancestral worship
Matthew Tyson Yates
1878
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Bagg on magnetism, or the doctrine of equilibrium
Joseph H. Bagg, Joseph H. [from old catalog] Bagg
1845
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Dahomey as it is
J. Alfred Skertchly
1874
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De secretariis Basilicae veteris ac novae libri II
Francesco Cancellieri
1786Latin
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Description de la pompe funebre faite dans l'eglise de Saint André des Arcs
Jean Bérain, Gérard-Jean-Baptiste Scotin
1709French
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Nature worship
Hargrave Jennings
1891
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Oracion funebre en las exequias con que se solemnizo el día XXIII. de Agosto de MDCCLXX. la translacion de los huesos del illmo. señor D.D. Diego del Corro
Esteban José Gallegos, Javier Echeverría
1770Spanish
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Studies in the Mosaic institutions
William Gallogly Moorehead
1895
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The Threshold Covenant, or
H. Clay Trumbull
1896
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The rat
James Rodwell
1858
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The reasoning power in animals
John Selby Watson
1867
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Tusculanarum disputationum ad M. Brutum libri quinque
Cicero, Gustav Tischer, Friedrich Gustav Georg Sorov, Marcus Tullius Cicero
1539
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Elogio funebre
Serafino Gatti, Litografia Bianchi, Francesco Pagliuolo
1825Italian
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History of the heathen gods and heroes of antiquity
William Sheldon, Hesiod, James Akin, Hesiod. Theogony. English. Selections, Isaiah Thomas, Thomas Wightman
1809
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Some inquiries concerning human sacrifices among the Romans
Thatcher Thayer, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Peel Sir, Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Robert Peel, Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope
1878
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Ye gods and goddesses, or, The apple of discord
Charles Robinson
1889
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Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan
Toru Dutt, Edmund Gosse
1882
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Ancient and Modern Initiation
Max Heindel
1909
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Ancient art and ritual
Jane Ellen Harrison
1800
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Buffalo morning express
1859