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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Tweeërlei vaderland
Abraham Kuyper
1887Dutch
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Two concertos for the organ and harpsichord
George Frideric Handel
1761Greek
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Ueber Feuerbestattung
Friedrich Goppelsroeder
1890German
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Ueber Meteor-cultus der alten: Vorzüglich in Bezug auf Steine, die vom Himmel gefallen
Johann Friedrich Hugo Dalberg
1811German
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Ueber das Seelenleben der Thiere: Thatsachen und Betrachtungen
Maximilian Perty
1876German
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Ueber den Einfluss der Festsitzenden Lebensweise auf die Thiere: Und über den Ursprung der ..
Arnold Lang
1888German
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Ueber den dorischen Ursprung des Apollodienstes
H. Müller
1859German
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Ueber die Grenze des thierischen und pflanzlichen Lebens
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus
1863German
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Ueber die Morphologie und die Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse der wirbellosen thiere
Rudolf Leuckart
1848German
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Ueber die Structur und die chemischen Eigenschaften der thierischen Bestandtheile der Knorpel und Knochen
Johannes Müller
1836German
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Ueber die Thierseele
Friedrich Kirchner
1890German
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Ultimi giorni e uffizii funebri dell'augusta maestà di Maria Luigia, principessa imperiale ed ...
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1847Italian
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Untersuchungen ueber niedere Seethiere
Wilhelm Moritz Keferstein
1862German
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Untersuchungen über die Bryozoen des süssen Wassers
Fritz Braem
1890German
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Untersuchungen zur physiologischen Morphologie der Thiere ..
Jacques Loeb
1891German
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Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der Missbildungen zunächst in den Eiern der Vögel
Peter Ludwig Panum
1860German
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Untersuchungen über die Spermatogenese von Paludina vivipara
Leopold Auerbach
1896German
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Ur Djur- och Växtmotivens utvecklingshistoria
Bernhard Salin
1890Swedish
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Varia commensuracion para la escultura y arquitectura
Juan de Arfe y Villafañe
1736Spanish
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Varie operette del co: Lorenzo Magalotti
Lorenzo conte Magalotti
1779Italian
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Vasi con rappresentanze di riti funebri
Alexander Conze
1864Italian
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Veillées des adorateurs du Très Saint Sacrement
J.-M.A
1889French
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Vergleichend physiologische und anatomische Untersuchungen über den Geruchs- und Geschmackssinn und ihre Organe mit einleitenden Betrachtungen aus der allgemeinen Vergleichenden Sinnesphysiologie
Willibald A. Nagel
1894German
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Vergleichende Zoologie
Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst
1843German