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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The Holy Spirit a divine Person, or, the doctrine of the Godhead represented, as evident and important
John Guyse
1721
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The Idea of God and the Moral Sense in the Light of Language: Being a Philological Enquiry Into ..
Herbert Baynes
1895
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The Iliad of Homer. Traslated from Greek by Alexandre Pope, Esq. In Two Volumes Volume 2
1807
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The Indian Antiquary
James Burgess, Richard Carnac Temple, John Faithful Fleet, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, Charles Evelyn Arbuthnot William Oldham
1893
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The Inspection of meats for animal parasites
D. E Salmon
1898
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The Jewish method of slaughter compared with other methods from the humanitarian, hygienic, and economic points of view
Isaak Aleksandrovich Dembo
1894
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The Kingdom of Christ
Benjamin Wyman Parker
1853
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The Kingdom of Christ Delineated, in Two Essays on Our Lord's Own Account of His Person and of ..
Richard Whately
1842
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The Kingdom of Christ: Delineated, in Two Essays on Our Lord's Own Accout of His Person and of ..
Richard Whately
1845
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The Kingdom of God
F. Herbert Stead
1893
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The Kingdom of God
William Miller
1842
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The Kingdom of Heaven
Rayner Winterbotham
1898
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The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Catholic Church
1575
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The Living God in England and India: A Sermon Preached by Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen, in Mill-Hill ..
Keshub Chunder Sen
1870
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The Lord Chief Justice of England on vivisection
John Duke Coleridge Baron Coleridge
1882
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The Lord's coming, Israel, and the church
Thomas Blackburn Baines
1875
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The Madeira Islands
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
1896
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The Mammoth Cave and its inhabitants
Alpheus S. Packard, Frederic Ward Putnam
1872
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The Method of the divine government, physical and moral
James McCosh
1851
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The Odyssey of Homer Translated by Alexander Pope. Vol. 1. 3
1809
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The Odyssey of Homer Traslate from the Greek by Alexander Apope, Esq. In Two Volumes Volume 2
1807
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The Old Syriac element in the text of Codex Bezae
F. H. Chase
1893
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The Primer (The Book of Common Prayer)
Church of England
1510Scottish Gaelic
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The Principles of Animal and Vegetable Physiology: A Popular Treatise on the Functions and ..
John Stevenson Bushnan
1854