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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The Book of common prayer: with notes, selected and arranged by R. Mant
[author not identified]
1840
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The Book of psalms, literally rendered in verse, by the Marquis of Lorne
[author not identified]
1877
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The Book of psalms, rendered into common metre verse [by J. Keith].
[name Missing]
1868
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The Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets, Translated from the Original Hebrew ...
Ebenezer Henderson, Elijah Porter Barrows
1868
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The Idea of God
Paul Carus
1896
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The Religious System of the Amazulu ... in Their Own Words
Henry Callaway
1868
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The art of contentment, by lady Pakington. A new ed., ed. by W. Pridden
Richard Allestree, Dorothy Pakington
1841
The art of divination in the ancient Near East
Stefan M. Maul, Brian McNeil, Alexander Johannes Edmonds
2018
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The broad road and the narrow way: a brief memoir of E.A. Harris, by the author of 'The female ...
Jemima Luke, Eliza Ann Harris
1859
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The broken cistern, and the springing well: or, The difference between head notions, and heart ...
William Huntington, Maria De Fleury
1800
The great sea-serpent
A. C. Oudemans
1892
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The internal parasites of the horse (entozoa)
1891
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Theatrum fati, sive Notitia scriptorum de providentia, fortuna et fato
Petrus Fridericus Arpe
1712
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Theogonia
Hesiod
1843Latin
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Theologicam contra Calvinianos exercitationem de distinctione Voluntatis divinae in antechedentam & consequentem... praieside...Baltasare Bebelio
Balthasar Georgius Schumann
1672Latin
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Theophanien, oder, ueber die symbolischen Anschauungen Gottes
Johann Christoph Greiling
1808German
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Thesaurus anatomicus primus ... Het eerste cabinet der dieren
Frederik Ruysch
1744Latin
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Thesaurus chirurgiae
Peter Uffenbach
1610Ancient Greek
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Thoughts on Revelation, with Special Reference to the Present Time
John McLeod Campbell
1874
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Three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880
Alexander Agassiz
1888
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Théodicée chrétienne: ou, Comparison de la notion chrétienne avec la notion rationaliste de Dieu
Henri-Louis-Charles Maret
1850French
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Théodicée; études sur Dieu, la création et la providence
Amédée de Margerie
1865French
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Till fragan om uppkomsten af sakramentala måltider med särskild hänsyn till totemismen ..
Edgar Hans Casimir Reuterskiöld
1908Swedish
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Timée de Locres en grec et en François
Πλάτων
1763French