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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Jehovah-Jesus
George Fyler Townesend
1890
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Jesus Christ, - God - God and Man
Henri-Dominique Lacordaire
1884
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Justice and mercy, sermons on penalty and forgiveness
Marion D. Shutter
1894
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Last report on dredging among the Shetland Isles
John Gwyn Jeffreys, Alfred Merle Norman, William Carmichael M'Intosh, Edward Waller
1868
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Laws of Montana relating to stock and agriculture
Montana
1895
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Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation
Baron Georges Cuvier
1817French
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Leather refuse
Joseph Bridgeo Lindsey
1894
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Leaves from the note book of a naturalist
William John Broderip
1852
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Leben des Meeres
G. Hartwig
1861
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Lectures delivered to the employees
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
1882
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Lectures in divinity
George Hill
1825
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Lectures on comparative anatomy
Everard Sir Home
1814
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Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy
Thomas Henry Huxley
1864
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Lectures on the general principles of moral government
John M Duncan
1832
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Lectures on the philosophy of religion, together with a work on the proofs of the existence of God
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1895
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Letters to a philosophical unbeliever
Joseph Priestley
1767
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Le©ʹons d'anatomie compar©♭e de G. Cuvier ... recueill©♭es et publi©♭es sous ses yeux par C. Dumeril ... 8vo, Paris, an VIII
Royal College of Surgeons of England
1801
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Life at the zoo
Charles John Cornish
1895
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Life eternall, or, A treatise of the knowledge of the divine essence and attributes
John Preston
1631
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Life in motion, or, Muscle and nerve
John Gray McKendrick
1894
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Life in motion, or, Muscle and nerve : a course of six lectures delivered before a juvenile auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas holidays of 1891-92
John Gray McKendrick
1892
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Life in the sea
Frederick Charles Lascelles Sir Wraxall
1860
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Life of Samuel J. Levick
Samuel Jones Levick
1896
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List of marine fauna collected at the Tarbert Laboratory during 1885
Thomas Scott
1885