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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Diplôme d'association de la Confrérie de la bonne mort
Edouard C. Fabre, Edouard Edouard Charles Fabre, Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Evêque
1878French
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Mandement concernant les fêtes patronales de paroisses
Église catholique. Diocèse de Québec. Evêque, Joseph Octave Plessis
1810French
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Thierorakel und orakelthiere in alter und neuer zeit
Ludwig Hopf
1888German
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Götternamen
Hermann Usener
1896German
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Lettre d'un médecin de la Faculté de Paris a un médecin du College de Londres
Nicolas Bergasse, Un médecin de la Faculté de Paris, Franz Anton Mesmer, Faculté de Paris, College de Londres
1781French
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Macrobii De somno Scipiõis
Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Saturnalia Macrobius
1501Ancient Greek
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Studien zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte
Wolf Wilhelm Graf von Baudissin, Wolf Wilhelm Baudissin
1876German
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The Image of the cross and lights on the altar in the Christian church and in heathen temples before the Christian era, especially in the British Isles
1879
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Lives of the most eminent fathers of the church that flourished in the first four centuries
William Cave, Henry Cary
1840
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Relacion que hace el claustro de la Real y Pontificia Universidad de Cervera a la S.C.R. magestad de el rey nuestro señor don Fernando Sexto, que Dios guarde, de las reales exequias, que el dia 8. de octubre de 1746 consagró a la eterna memoria de su muy amado rey, y fundador don Phelipe Quinto, que de Dios goza
Manuel Ibarra, Pedro Costa, Manuel Joven y Trigo, Blas Larraz, Universidad de Cervera, Ignasi Valls
1747Spanish
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Report of the committee of arrangements of the Common council of New York
New York Common Council, William Mason Cornell
1852
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Das antike Mysterienwesen in seinem Einfluss auf das Christentum
Gustav Anrich
1894German
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Griechische Kunstmythologie
Johannes Adolf Overbeck
1871German
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Le Tcheou-li
Li Zhou, Edouard Biot, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Edouard Biot Li Chou, Stanislas Julien
1851French
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Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire de la jonglerie, dans lequel on démontre les phénomènes du mesmérisme
Noël Retz
1784French
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Relazione del funerale celebrato in Parma nella chiesa conventuale della Beata Vergine della Steccata del Sacro ed imperiale ordine equestre militare costantiniano di S. Giorgio, il giorno 28 di febbrajo dell'anno MDCCL
Giuseppe Benedetti, Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Francesco Grassi, Giuseppe Patrini, Lodovico Preti, Giambattista Recurti
1750Italian
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The secret of the sects : a few words on mesmerism, psychomancy, etc.
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
1882
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Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
Ignatius Donnelly, Ignatius L. Donnelly
1882
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Examen du magnétisme animal
Philippe Antoine Frère
1837French
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Oracion funebre
José Joaquín de Larriva y Ruiz, Henri Ternaux-Compans
1819Spanish
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Recherches sur la nature du culte de Bacchus en Grèce
J.-F Gail, Gail, J.-Jean-François
1821
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Vetustissimae tabulae aeneae sacris Aegyptiorum simulachris coelatae accurata explicatio
Lorenzo Pignoria
1605Latin
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Animal magnetism and homoeopathy
Edwin Lee, d.1870 Lee Edwin, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
1838
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Eseqvie del divino Michelagnolo Bvonarroti
Jacopo Giunta
1564Italian