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
- Read free
List of mollusca and other forms of marine life collected in the years 1889-1890, in Japan
F. Stearns
1891
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List of the animals in the gardens of the Zoological Society
Benjamin French, Zoological Society of London
1837
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List of the specimens of the British animals in the collection of the British museum
British Museum. Dept . of Zoology
1845
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List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London
Zoological Society of London
1877
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List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London
London Zoo
1877
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Literae humaniores
Henry Stephens Salt
1894
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Little beast of field & wood
William Everett Cram
1899
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Lively sallies
William Parkinson
1870
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Living lights
Charles Frederick Holder
1887
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Love in wrath
Arthur T. Pierson
1892
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Love to an unseen saviour
Archibald Alexander
1863
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Lowly water animals
N. D'Anvers
1896
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Lucan's Pharsalia Translated from the Latin, by Nicholas Rowe, ... in Two Volumes
1812
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Man and beast
John George Wood
1875
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Man's injustice to animals
Society for the Abolition of Vivisection
1888
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Manual of cattle feeding
Henry Prentiss Armsby
1880
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Manual of veterinary microbiology
Gustave Mosselman
1894
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Manual of veterinary specific homeopathy
F. Humphreys
1882
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Marci Tullii Ciceronis ; De natura deorum
Cicero
1896
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Marvels of pond-life
Henry James Slack
1861
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Marvels of pond-life; or, A year's microscopic recreations among the polyps, infusoria, rotifers ..
Henry J. Slack
1878
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Matka and Kotik
David Starr Jordan
1897
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Mayhew's Illustrated horse management
Edward Mayhew
1890
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Meat-Eaters
Lucy Ellen Guernsey
1858