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
New edition of the brief history of the ancient and accepted Scottish rite of Freemasonry
Edwin Allen Sherman
1890
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New-Englands rarities discovered
John Josselyn
1672
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Nights with an Old Gunner and Other Studies of Wild Life: And Other Studies ..
Charles John Cornish
1897
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Notes and jottings from animal life
Francis Trevelyan Buckland
1826
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Notes and jottings from animal life [ed. by G.C. Bompas]
Francis Trevelyan Buckland
1882
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Notes on "licked beef" and "jelly"
Eleanor A. Ormerod
1895
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Notes on fields and cattle from the diary of an amateur farmer
William Holt Beever
1862
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Notes on ox warble fly, or bot fly, Hypoderma bovis, DeGeer
Eleanor A. Ormerod
1887
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Notes on practice of veterinary medicine
Leonard Pearson
1893
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Notes on stable management in India and the colonies
J. A. Nunn
1897
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Notes on the pearl and chank fisheries and marine fauna of the Gulf of Manaar
Edgar Thurston
1890
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Notes on zoological museums
John Edward Gray
1864
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Notice of the Megatherium cuvieri
Henry A Ward
1864
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Notice regarding the ova of the pontobdella muricata, Lam
Robert E. Grant
1826
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Notice! to all railroad companies transporting cattle within the United States
United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of the Secretary
1897
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Nugae hibernicae
Zoophilus
1876
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Observations on certain parts of the animal economy
John Hunter FRS
1840
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Observations on live stock, containing hints for choosing and improving the best breeds of the most useful kinds of domestic animals
George Culley
1786
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Observations on marine vermes, insects, etc
Matthew Martin
1786
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Observations on the anatomy of the lacteal system of vessels in the seal (Phoca Vitulina, Lin.)
Knox Dr
1824
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Observations on the arrested twin development of Jean Battista Dos Santos, born at Faro in Portugal in 1846
P. D. Handyside
1866
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Observations on the effect of madder root on the bones of animals : read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester April 10, 1801
Benjamin Gibson
1805
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Observations on the fur seals of the Pribilof Islands
United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Commission on Fur-seal Investigation
1896
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Observations on the glacial phenomena of Labrador and Maine
Alpheus S. Packard
1867