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
Hymnus in Bacchum
Federico Ceruti, Alessandro Lisca, Henry Newton Stevens, Randolph Greenfield Adams, Thomas Randolph Adams
1585
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Oeuvres de Malebranche
Nicolas Malebranche, Jules Simon
1842French
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Recherches et doutes sur le magnétisme animal
Michel-Augustin Thouret, Auguste Thouret
1784French
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The Bible expositor
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection
1844
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Ueber die Bedeutung des Neuplatonismus für die Entwickelung der christlichen Speculation
Friedrich Michelis
1884German
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Vita, morte e funerale d'Innocenzo Vndecimo, pontefice ottimo e massimo
Giovanni Battista Pittoni, Carlo Remenolfo
1692Italian
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A dissertation on the ancient pagan mysteries
John Towne
1766
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Le imagini con la spositione de i dei de gliantichi
Vincenzo Cartari
1556Italian
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Memorie istoriche delle sacre teste de' Santi Apostoli Pietro e Paolo e della loro solenne ricognizione nella Basilica Lateranense
Francesco Cancellieri
1806Italian
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Mythology & monuments of ancient Athens
Pausanias, active approximately Pausanias, Jane Ellen Harrison, Margaret de Gaudrion Merrifield Verrall
1890
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A Central American ceremony which suggests the snake dance of the Tusayan villagers
Jesse Walter Fewkes
1893
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Orazione funebre nelle esequie del Serenissimo principe Clemente Gianfederigo Cesare d'Este
Emilio Manfredi, Ippolito. Canzone dispensata nel giorno de' funerali del Serenissimo Signor principe Gianfederigo d'Este Zanelli
1727Italian
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System des Tellurismus oder Thierischen Magnetismus
Dietrich Georg Kieser
1822German
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Disquisitions upon the painted Greek vases, and their probable connection with the shows of the Eleusinian and other mysteries
James Christie
1825
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Essay on the mysteries of Eleusis
Uvarov, Sergi͡eǐ Semenovich Graf, James Christie, J. D. tr Price, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Sergei Semenovich Uvarov
1817
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Imagines deorvm, qvi ab antiqvis colebantvr
Vincenzo Cartari, Antoine Du Verdier, Bolognino Zaltieri
1581Latin
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Les merveilles du magnétisme
Johannès Trismégiste, Johannès. Mystères des tables tournantes et parlantes Trismégiste
1854French
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Les oeuures de Philon Iuif, autheur tres-eloquent, et philosophe tres-graue
Philo of Alexandria, Pierre Bellier, Nicolas Chesneau
1575French
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Memoria sobre os prejuisos causados pelas sepulturas dos cadaveres nos templos
Vicente Coelho de Seabra, José Mariano da Conceição Velloso
1800Portuguese
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Mesmer, le magnétisme animal, les tables tournantes et les esprits: les ...
Ernest Bersot
1879French
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Prelleri de via sacra Eleusinia
Ludwig Preller
1841
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Relacion succinta de las honras, y exequias funerales que la Junta de Caridad fundada en el Real Hospital de San Juan de Dios de Guatemala
Juan de Santa Rosa Ramírez, Unknown
1811Spanish
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Skythika
Georg Liebusch
1833NOT
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Parnassus biceps
Jean Jacques Boissard
1627Latin