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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Commensaux et les parasites dans le règne animal
Beneden M. van
1876
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Companion to Mr. Kingsley's "Glaucus"
George Brettingham Sowerby II, Charles Kingsley
1858
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Comparer les forces qui régissent la vie chez l'homme et chez les animaux vertébrés, en apprécier les différences et les ressemblances en vue des progrès de l'anthropologie médicale
J.-G.-C.-Jules Bouliech
1855
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Condition of seal life on the rookeries of the Pribilof Islands, 1893-1895
Charles Haskins Townsend
1894
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Confidence in the mercy of God
Jean Joseph Languet, George Bernard Burder
1876
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Conscience in animals
George John Romanes
1876
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Considerationes modestae et pacificae controversiarum de justificatione
William Forbes
1850
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Contagious diseases of cattle
United States. Congress. Senate
1880
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Contagious diseases of domesticated animals
United States. Dept. of Agriculture
1880
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Contributions to the natural history of the Acalephae of North America
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
1850
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Contributions to the natural history of the Hawaiian and Fanning islands and Lower California
Thomas Hale Streets
1877
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Contributions to the philosophy of zoology
Robert Knox
1855
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Conversations on the divine government
Theophilus Lindsey
1802
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Cooper Curtice papers
Cooper Curtice
1888
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Correspondences of the Bible
John Worcester
1875
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Cortical cerebral localization with special reference to rodents and birds
Wesley Mills
1896
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Courtship and marriage
Caroline Lee Hentz
1856
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Covenant names and privileges
Richard Newton
1882
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Creation: A Philosophical Poem Demonstrating the Existence and Providence of a God. In Seven Books
Richard Blackmore
1715
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Criticism on the theological idea of deity
M. B. Craven
1871
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Cruelty to animals
Thomas Erskine, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine
1809
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Cruelty to animals
Great Britain. Home Office
1891
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Cuba contre Espagne
Enrique José Varona
1896
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Cultivated plants and domestic animals in their migration from Asia to Europe
Victor Hehn
1891