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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Bevo lkerung und Viehstand von Bo hmen nach der Za hlung vom 31. Dec. 1869
Austria. Statistische Zentralkommission
1871German
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Beytrag zur Geschichte der Denkart der ersten Jahrhunderte nach Christi ..
Christoph Meiners
1782German
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Bibelgeschichte
Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen
1865German
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Bible Ethics: A Manual of Instruction in the History and Principles of ...
Joseph Krauskopf, Henry Berkowitz
1884
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Biblical Theology of the New Testament
Bernhard Weiss, David Eaton, James E . Duguid
1882
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Bidrag til kundskab om Christianiafjordens fauna
M. Sars
1868Danish
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Bilder aus dem Thierleben
Karl Christoph Vogt
1852German
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Biographia Scoticana: Or, A Brief Historical Account of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies ...
William M'Gavin, Clergyman of the Church of Scotland
1828
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Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's Hole, 1890-[1899]
Marine Biological Laboratory, Mass.)
1896
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Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances
Thomas Percy, Frederick James Furnivall, John W. Hales
1868
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
[author not identified]
1858
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Book of Worship: For the Congregation and the Home. Taken Principally from ...
Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass .), James Freeman Clarke
1869
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Brann the Iconoclast: A Collection of the Writings of W.C. Brann
William Cowper Brann, J.D. Shaw
1898
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Brehms Thierleben
Alfred Edmund Brehm
1876German
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Brehms thierleben, allgemeine kunde des thierreichs
Alfred Edmund Brehm
1876German
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Breve istoria della chiesa, e miracolosa immagine di Maria Santissima intitolata del Soccorso esistente nella città di Cori : coronata dall'illustriss. e reverendiss. capitolo della Vatcana patriarcale basilica nell'anno 1778 : con l' appendice della vita del Can. D. Pellegrino Landi Vittorj ... e con alcuni versi italiani in fine ad onore della medesima Beatissima Vergine
Giuseppe Mariano Marchiafave
1821Italian
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Breve noticia de como entrou neste reyno a devoçam da gloriosa Santa Rosalia virgem
José Freire de Monterroyo Mascarenhas
1754Portuguese
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Brevet exclusif qui permet aux sieurs Guerin, Testard, & autres artificiers, de faire & exécuter, pendant 12 ans, un feu d'artifice sur la riviere de Seine, la veille de la fête de S. Louis, du dix-neuf may 1741
France. Sovereign
1741French
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British Social Wasps: An Introduction to Their Anatomy and Physiology ...
Edward Latham Ormerod, BookLab
1868
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review
[name Missing]
1850
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Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life, Being ...
Beaufort, Joseph de, Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection
1895
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Bulletin
United States
1885
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Bulletin de la Socit impriale zoologique d'acclimatation
Socit impriale zoologique d'acclimatation
1855French
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Bulletin de la Socit nationale d'acclimatation de France
Socit nationale d'acclimatation de France
1882French