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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Ceremonies funebres de toutes les nations
Pierre Muret
1679French
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Fetichism in West Africa
Robert Hamill Nassau
1904
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Gods and fighting men
Augusta Gregory, Lady Gregory, William Butler Yeats
1904
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Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by the native religions of Mexico and Peru
Albert Réville, Philip Philip Henry Wicksteed
1884
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Legenda Aurea
Jacobus de Voragine, William Caxton, Johann Georg Theodor Grässe
1476Latin
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Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium
Edward Keller, Nicola Masciandaro, Eugene Thacker
2012
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Magic and fetishism
Alfred C. Haddon, Alfred Alfred Cort Haddon
1906
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Natural History Lore And Legend
F. Edward Hulme
1895
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Paganism surviving in Christianity
Abram Herbert Lewis
1892
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Pompe funerali celebrate in Napoli per l'eccellentissima signora d. Caterina d'Aragona, e Sandovale, duchessa di Segorbia , Cardona, &c
Carlo Russo
1697Ancient Greek
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Primitive Christian Worship
James Endell Tyler
1840
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Religions of primitive peoples
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Daniel Daniel Garrison Brinton
1897
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Representation of deities of the Maya manuscripts
Paul Schellhas, Alberta M. Parker, Selma Wesselhoeft
1904
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Select works of Porphyry
Porphyry, Thomas Taylor
1823
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Social Origins and Primal Law
Andrew Lang, James Jasper Atkinson
1903
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Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae statua
Claude-François Menestrier
1688Latin
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The demi-gods
James Stephens
1914
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The kingdom of the yellow robe
Ernest Young, Edwin Edwin Arthur Norbury
1898
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Traditional African religions in South African law
T. W Bennett
2014
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Laurentii Pignorii Patavini Mensa Isiaca
Lorenzo Pignoria, Abraham Blooteling, Giacomo Filippo Tomasini
1669Latin
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Lexicon antiquitatum romanarum
Samuel Pitiscus
1713Latin
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Mausolee erigé a la memoire immortelle de tres-haulte, tres-puissante, et tres-auguste princesse Isabelle, Claire, Eugenie, d'Austriche, infante d'Espagne
La Serre M. de, Cornelis Galle, Nikolaus van der Horst, Pieter de Jode, Jan Pepermans, Anthonis Sallaert
1634French
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The Meriden recorder
Luther G. Riggs, Luther Luther Granger Riggs
1865
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Religious thought and life in India
Monier Monier-Williams
1883