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
Seconde lettre a M. Ce rutti, sur les pre tendus prodiges & faux miracles, employe s dans tous les tems, pour abuser & subjuguer les peuples
Pierre Antoine de La Place
1790French
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Segredos da magia de umbanda e quimbanda
W. W. da Matta e Silva
1964Portuguese
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Sermon a las glorias del Padre Eterno
Andrés Maximiliano Escudero
1663Spanish
- Read free
Sermons
Henri-Dominique Lacordaire
1889
- Read free
Shaʻare teshuvah
Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi
1511Hebrew
- Read free
Soirees d'automne
A.-F Maunoury
1887French
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Souvenirs d'un voyage dans l'Inde exécuté de 1834 à 1839
Adolphe Delessert
1843French
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Souvereiniteit in eigen kring
Abraham Kuyper
1880Dutch
Spirit-writing cults in the Chaozhou region between 1860 and 1949
Guoping Li
2023
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Statistische und ethnographische Nachrichten über die russischen Besitzungen an der Nordwestküste von Amerika
Ferdinand Petrovich baron Wrangel
1839German
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Storia della diaconia cardinalizia, e monistero abaziale di S. Agata alla Suburra
Giovanni Laurenti
1797Italian
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Storia della traslazione del Beato Antonio della Chiesa e dell'approvazione del suo culto
Carlo Maria Nay
1875Italian
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Studien zur rechtsgeschichte der Gottesfrieden und Landfrieden
Ludwig Huberti
1892German
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Studien über Entwickelungsgeschichte der Tiere
Emil Selenka
1883German
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Sulla respirazione e sul calore animale
Domenico Ranaldi
1804Italian
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Summa aurea de laudibus beatissimae Virginis Mariae
Jean Jacques Bourassé
1862Latin
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Supplement ne cessaire a l'Importance des opinions religieuses par M. Necker, ou, Nouvelle lettre provinciale
Jacques Necker
1788French
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Sur la faune des eaux profondes de la Méditerranée, au large de Monaco
Albert I Prince of Monaco
1890French
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Sur la quatrième campagne scientifique de l'Hirondelle
Albert I Prince of Monaco
1888French
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Sur les animaux polistomes et porostomes
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
1820French
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Sur les genres Tridynia, Steironema, Lysimachia, etc
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
1820French
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Sur les institutions sociales
Jacques-Michel Coupe
1795French
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Svensk zoologi
Conrad Quensel
1806German
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Symboloru[m] & emblematum ex re herbaria desumtorum centuria vna[-quarta] collecta
Joachim Camerarius
1654Latin