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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Mesmerismus, oder, System der Wechselwirkungen
Franz Anton Mesmer, Karl Christian Wolfart
1814German
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Tutankhamun Knew the Names of the Two Great Gods
Steven R.W Gregory
2022
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Cours de magnétisme en sept leçons
Académie nationale de médecine, Jules Dupotet
1840French
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Der Fetischismus: Ein Beitrag zur Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte
Fritz Schultze
1871German
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Historia de los trivmphos de nvestra santa fee entre gentes las mas barbaras
Andrés Pérez de Ribas, Pérez de Ribas, Andrés, 1576-1655, author
1645Spanish
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Impetus doloris Excell. Princ. D. Ant. Triuulzio praepropera morte sublato praepropere funere parentatis
Filippo Biffi
1678Italian
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Reales exequias que a su augusta soberana Da. Maria Amalia de Saxonia, reina de España, consagró el rendido amor, y gratitud de la mui ilustre ciudad de Barcelona, en los dias 23, y 24 de abril de 1761
Francisco Boix, Ramon Foxá, Francisco Tramullas, Manuel Tramullas, Ignacio Valls, Maria Teresa Vendréll y Texidó
1762Ancient Greek
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Coup-d'oeil sur le magnétisme et le somnambulisme considérés sous le rapport médical et religieux
François Roux, François Roux
1846French
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Hochverdientes Ehren-Gedächtnis dem weyland durchlauchtigsten Fürsten und Herrn, Herrn Friederichen dem Andern, Hertzogen zu Sachsen-Gotha [et]c
Martin Bernigeroth, Christian Friedrich Boetius
1723German
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Modo di consecrar le vergini
Benedetto Buommattei
1622Italian
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Reply to a critique in the Saturday review on the Scoto-Oxonian philosophy
M. P. W. Bolton
1862
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Rural sports
William Barker Daniel
1801
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Studien und Andeutungen im Gebiet des altrömischen Bodens und Cultus
Julius Athanasius Ambrosch
1839German
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Griechische mythologie
Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard, Eduard Gerhard
1854German
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Il battesimo del serenissimo prencipe di Piemonte
Agostino Bucci
1567Italian
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Il culto privato di Roma antica
Attilio de Marchi
1896Italian
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Oratione fvnerale di M. Pietro Angelio da Barga, fatta nelle esseqvie del sereniss. Cosimo de Medici, gran duca di Toscana
Pietro Angèli
1574Italian
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A pattern of catechistical doctrine
Lancelot Andrewes
1846
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Description de la pompe funebre de monseigneur le marechal duc de Villeroy
Jean-Louis Daudet, Pierre Degérando, Louis Renaud, Daniel Sarrabat
1731French
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El fenix de Bolonia
Gregorio de Parga y Bassadre, Marc'Antonio Chiarini, Colegio de EspañBologna, Italy, Francesco Curti, Lodovico Mattioli, Pier Maria Monti
1703Spanish
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Fvneralia der weyland durchlauchtigsten Fürstin und Frau, Frau Magdalenen Augusten, verwittibter Hertzogin zu Sachsen-Gotha und Altenburg, gebohrner Fürstin von Anhalt-Zerbst
Johann Christian Schilbach, Johann Wilhelm Windter
1742German
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Nekpokēdeia: or, The art of embalming
Thomas Greenhill
1705
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Religious ceremonies and customs
Bernard Picart, Colin Mackenzie, Charles Augustus Goodrich, Charles Charles Augustus Goodrich, Colin Religious rites and ceremonies of every nation in the world MacKenzie
1834
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Totem and taboo
Sigmund Freud, Abraham Arden Brill
1975