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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Discourses concerning the perfections of God
John Abernethy
1740
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Discourses on Various Subjects Relative to the Being and Attributes of God ..
Adam Clarke
1828
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Discourses on all the principal branches of natural religion and social virtue
James Foster
1749
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Discourses on the Divine unity
William Christie, William Ellery Channing
1740
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Discourses on the love of God
Isaac Watts
1832
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Discourses on the providence and government of God
Newcome Cappe
1795
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Diseases in animals (tick fever)
Hunt J . Sidney
1897
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Diseases of Animals Act, 1894
United Kingdom
1894
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Diseases of the American horse, and cattle and sheep
M.D. Robert McClure
1870
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Dissertations introductory to the study and right understanding of the language, structure, and contents of the Apocalypse
Alexander Tilloch
1823
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Divine benevolence asserted and vindicated from the objections of ancient and modern sceptics
Thomas Balguy
1781
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Divine conduct or, The mystery of providence
John Flavel
1820
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Divine dialoques
Henry More
1713
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Divine love, and the divine forgiveness, illustrated, in two sermons
R. B. Wiggins
1851
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Divine worship
Alfred A. Watson
1872
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Domestic Animals: A Pocket Manual of Cattle, Horse and Sheep Husbandry; Or ..
Daniel Harrison Jacques
1858
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Domestic animals
Richard Lamb Allen
1847
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Domesticated animals
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
1895
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Dr. Willis's practice of physick
Thomas Willis
1681
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Ecce regnum
William R] [from old catalog Josslyn, William R. Josslyn
1877
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Ecce terra
E. F. Burr
1883
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Eightieth Birthday
Georgetown College
1876
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Elementary text-book of zoology
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus
1884
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Elements of practical agriculture
David Low
1838