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
Two treatises of Proclus, the Platonic successor
Proclus Diadochus
1833
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Un-natural history, or Myths of ancient science
Edmund Goldsmid
1886
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Uncle Remus, and, Nights with Uncle Remus
Joel Chandler Harris
1880
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Venomous animals
Joseph Sir Fayrer
1877
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Veterinary medicine and surgery in diseases and injuries of the horse
F. O. Kirby
1883
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Veterinary medicines
Finlay Dun
1864
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Victory through the name
Charles A. Fox
1894
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Views of the Deity, traditional and scientific
James Samuelson
1871
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Views upon the statics of the human chest, animal heat, and determinations of blood to the head
Julius Jeffreys
1843
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Vivarium naturae, or, The naturalist's miscellany
George Shaw, Frederick Polydore Nodder
1790
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Vivisection in America
Frances Power Cobbe
1889
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Vivisections and Painful Experiments on Living Animals: Their Unjustifiability
W. Gimson Gimson
1879
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Voyages de Cyrus
Ramsay Chevalier
1727
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Warbles in hides ...
Eleanor A. Ormerod
1886
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Water-animals
Ella Rodman Church
1890
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What they did
Evelyn Cunningham Geikie
1883
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White leghorns
Heather Stoddard
1884
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Who is God in China
Solomon Caesar Malan
1855
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Wild animals and birds
Andrew Wilson
1882
- Read free
Wild animals in captivity
Abraham Dee Bartlett
1898
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Wild animals in captivity, or, Orpheus at the zoo, and other papers
C. J. Cornish
1894
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Wild life at home
Richard Kearton
1898
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Wild neighbors
Ernest Ingersoll
1897
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Wild traits in tame animals
Louis Robinson
1897