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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Die totenmahldarstellungen in der altchristlichen kunst ..
Hermann Matthaei
1899German
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Dieu dans la nature
Camille Flammarion
1869French
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Dionysios
Hermann Friedrich Müller
1918German
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Dios en la naturaleza
Camille Flammarion
1878Spanish
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Disceptatio physiologica inauguralis, quaedam de calore animali complectens
Darnell Bulman
1816Latin
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Discorso recitato in S. Niccola in Arcione ad encomio della venerabile Arciconfraternita della anime più bisognose del purgatorio
Rinaldo Degiovanni
1868Italian
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Discours ...: sur les instincts et l'intelligence des animaux
Auguste Bourlier
1867French
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Discours de Maximilien Robespierre, pre sident de la Convention nationale, au peuple re uni pour la fe te de l'E tre supre me, de cadi 20 prairial, l'an deuxie me de la Re publique franc ʹaise, une et indivisible
Maximilien Robespierre
1794French
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Disertaciones sobre caballos, bueyes, mulas, asnos, ganado lanar, cabr©Ưo, y de cerda; peste de Marsella, y brutos maguinas de Carthesio ...
Juan Francisco Calvo y Cavero
1789Spanish
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Disputatio physica inauguralis, de ortu animalium caloris
Gustavus Ricardus Brown
1768Latin
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Disquisitiones circa quorundam animalium venas abdominales, praecipue renales
Johann August Heinrich Nicolai
1823Latin
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Dissertatio Fridericiana de imaginatione hominum et brutorum ...
Christophorus Oberius
1701Latin
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Dissertatio anatomico-medica inauguralis duorum monstrorum anatomen et de causis monstrorum ulteriorem disquisitionem exhibens ...
Christian Jeremias Rollin
1742Latin
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Dissertatio botanica de hermannia ..
Carl Peter Thunberg
1794Latin
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Dissertatio chemico-medica inauguralis de animantium calore ...
Gulielmus Somervell Mitchell
1800Latin
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Dissertatio chymica inauguralis, de calorico, et de evolutione ejus in animalibus ...
Charles Alexander Graham
1793Latin
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Dissertatio diaetetica, de pinguedine animali
Jacob Lindh
1759Latin
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Dissertatio inauguralis medica de lapide manati
Georg Ernst Stahl
1699Latin
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Dissertatio inauguralis medica, de Deo, autore verae medicinae ...
Heinrich Gerngross
1712Latin
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Dissertatio inauguralis medica, de curis viperinis ...
Gottlieb Konrad Christian Storr
1768Latin
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Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis de fonte caloris animalium pulmonibus instructorum ...
Richard Maddock Hawley
1807Latin
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Dissertatio physiologica inauguralis, de calore animali
Adam Macdougall
1813Latin
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Dissertation sur l'existence et les attributs de Dieu
César-Guillaume de La Lucerne
1844French
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Dissertations sur la chaleur, avec des observations nouvelles sur la construction et la comparaison des thermométres
George Martine
1751French