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
Observations on the influence of soil and climate upon wool
Robert Bakewell
1808
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Oceanic ichthyology
G. Brown Goode
1895
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Omnipotence belongs only to the beloved
MacPherson Mrs. Brewster
1876
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On a true parthenogenesis in moths and bees
C. Th. E. von Siebold, Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
1857
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On agricultural chemistry and the nature and properties of Peruvian guano
J. C. Nesbit
1856
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On animal alkaloids
William Aitken
1887
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On animal electricity : being an abstract of the discoveries of Emil Du Bois-Reymond
Bence Jones
1852
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On animal vaccination
Peter Murray Braidwood
1870
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On human longevity and the amount of life upon the globe
Jean Pierre Flourens
1855
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On local anaesthesia by ether spray, as a means for the entire extinction of pain in operations on the inferior animals
Benjamin Ward Sir Richardson
1867
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On morphology and teleology, especially in the limbs of Mammalia
Burt G. Wilder
1865
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On parthenogenesis
Richard Owen
1849
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On seals and savages
Edith Blake
1889
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On serpent-worship and on the venomous snakes of India
Joseph Fayrer
1892
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On some new and rare Hydroida in the Australian museum collection
William Mountier Bale
1888
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On some remarkable forms of animal life from the great deeps off the Norwegian coast..
G. O. Sars
1872
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On the Systematic Position of the Brachiopoda
Edward Sylvester Morse
1873
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On the action of anaesthetics
John G. McKendrick
1881
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On the animal alkaloids
William Aitken
1887
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On the animal alkaloids : the ptoma© nes, leucoma© nes, and extractives in their pathological relations
William Aitken
1889
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On the artificial production of tubercle in the lower animals
Wilson Fox
1868
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On the benevolence and rectitude of the Supreme Being
Asa Shinn
1840
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On the brain of Chimæra Monstrosa
Burt G. Wilder
1877
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On the causes of death of many of the animals at the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, from 1851 to February 1860
Edwards Crisp
1860