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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Elements of practical agriculture; comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm
David Low
1843
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Entretiens Sur la Nature de L'ame Des Bêtes
Franc̦ois Aubert
1760
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Essays in natural history and agriculture
Thomas Garnett
1883
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Essays on the Lives of Cowper, Newton, and Heber: Or, an Examination of the Evidence of the ..
John Philips Potter
1830
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Essays on the Wisdom of God
Daniel Tyerman
1818
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Every living creature
Ralph Waldo Trine
1899
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Every living creature; or, Heart-training through the animal world
Ralph Waldo Trine
1899
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Evidence given before the Royal Commission on Vivisection
George R. Jesse
1875
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Evil results of over-feeding cattle
Frederick James Gant
1858
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Evolution and Disease
John Bland-Sutton
1890
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Evolution of the colors of North American land birds
Charles Augustus Keeler
1893
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Exhibition of works of art illustrative of and connected with sport
England : 1877-1890) Grosvenor Gallery (London
1890
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Experimental Pharmacology. A Hand-book of Methods for Studying the Physiological Actions of Drugs
Ludimar Hermann, Robert Meade Smith
1883
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Experimental researches on the food of animals, and the fattening of cattle
Robert Dundas Thomson
1846
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Experimentation on Animals as a Means of Knowledge in Physiology, Pathology ..
John Call Dalton
1875
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Experiments and observations on animal heat, and the inflammation of combustible bodies
Adair Crawford
1779
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Experiments on animal electricity
Eusebio Valli
1793
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Explanation of the holy sacrifice of the mass
Martin von Cochem
1896
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Extinct monsters
Henry Neville Hutchinson
1892
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Fact against fiction
Grantley F. Berkeley
1874
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False beasts and true
Frances Power Cobbe
1876
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Famous pets of famous people
Eleanor Lewis
1892
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Farm food
Emil Theodor von Wolff
1895
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Farm live stock of Great Britain
Robert Wallace
1885