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 Russian fur-seal islands
Leonhard Stejneger
1896
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The Shepherd of Israel, or God's pastoral care over his people
Obadiah Sedgwick
1658
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The Teachers' and parents' assistant, or, Thirteen lessons conveying to uninformed minds the first ideas of God and his attributes
Rebecca Gratz
1845
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The Testimony of Nature and Revelation to the Being, Perfections and ..
Henry Fergus
1833
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The Tripartite Nature of Man, Spirit, Soul, and Body: Applied to Illustrate and Explain the ..
John Bickford Heard
1868
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The True Gospel of Jesus Christ Asserted: Wherein is Shewn what Is, and what is Not that Gospel ..
Thomas Chubb
1738
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The Works of Virgil Translated by John Dryden
1810
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The accommodation for charging, lairing, slaughtering and storing at the foreign animals' wharfs, Birkenhead
Francis Vacher
1881
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The anatomy of the brain. Containing its mechanism and physiology; together with some new discoveries and corrections of ancient and modern authors upon that subject to which is annex'd a particular account of animal functions and muscular motion ...
Humphrey Ridley
1695
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The animal alkaloids cadaveric and vital or, the ptomaines and leucomaines
A. M. Brown
1889
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The animal life of our sea-shore
Angelo Heilprin
1888
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The animal life of our seashore
Angelo Heilprin
1888
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The animal tuberculoses
Ed Nocard
1895
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The animal tuberculoses : and their relation to human tuberculosis
Nocard Edmond
1895
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The animals mentioned in the Bible
H. C. Hart
1883
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The animals of the world
Alfred Edmund Brehm
1895
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The aquarian naturalist: A Manual for the Sea-side
Thomas Rymer Jones
1858
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The aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea
Philip Henry Gosse
1854
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The army of Christ, Lenten sermons
Martin A. Keene
1868
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The art of improving the breeds of domestic animals
John Saunders Sir Sebright, John Saunders Sebright
1809
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The artistic anatomy of the horse
B. Waterhouse Hawkins
1865
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The association of human and bovine tuberculosis
Edward Fletcher Brush
1898
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The atheistical objections against the being of a god, and his attributes
John Harris
1698
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The authenticity of the Gospel-history justified, and the truth of the Christian revelation demonstrated, from the laws and constitution of human nature
Archibald Campbell
1759