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
De eruditione apostolorum liber singularis
Giovanni Lami
1766Latin
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De festis diebus Christianorum, Iudaeorum & Ethnicorum liber
Matthaeus Dresser
1607Latin
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De impedimento disparitatis cultus commentatus est Fridericus Wiesehahn
Fridericus Wiesehahn
1865NOT
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De matrimonio disparis cultus sive de I. Cor. VII, 12 - 16
Moritz Filser
1844Latin
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De moralitate ritus , caput operiendi in sacris
Johann Gottfried Rochau, Christoph Heinrich Zeibich
1704NOT
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De origine, causis typo et ceremoniis illius ritus , qui vulgo ... Depositio ... appellatur oratio
Johannes Dinckel
1582NOT
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De origine, causis, typo, et ceremoniis illius ritus , qui vulgo in scholis Depositio appellatur, oratio M. Johannis Dinckelij
Johannes Dinckel
1579Latin
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De quaestione: num unius dei cultus a Mose institutus ex doctrina repetitus sit Aegyptiorum?. 1
Jacob F Lieberknecht
1844NOT
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De templorum condendorum ac dedicandorum ritus
Urban Gottfried Siber
1716Latin
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De vasculo picto Amazonis pugnam et inferiarum ritus repraesentante Scripsit Ernst Schulze
Ernst Heinrich Ferdinand Schulze
1870NOT
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Denkmäler der alten Kunst. Teil 2, Antike Denkmäler zur griechischen Götterlehre
Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Wieseler
1899German
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Deorum sacrificiorumque gentilium
Johann Bertels
1606Latin
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Der Buddhismus nach älteren Pâli-Werken
Edmund Hardy
1890German
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Der Cultus des Genius, mit besonderer Beziehung auf Schiller und sein Verhältniß zum Christenthum
Gustav Schwab, Carl Ullmann
1840German
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Der Eid im Alten Testament, vom Standpunkte der vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte aus betrachtet
Julius Happel
1893German
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Der Einfluß der Ergebnisse der neuesten alttestamentl. Forschungen auf Religionsgeschichte und Glaubenslehre
Karl Marti
1894German
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Der Feuer- und Molochdienst der alten Hebräer als urväterlicher, legaler, orthodoxer Cultus der Nation
Georg Friedrich Daumer
1842German
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Der Geist des katholischen Kultus
Mathias Terklau
1850German
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Der Genius des Cultus
J. D Seisen
1841NOT
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Der Kampf des Christentums mit dem Heidentum
Gerhard Uhlhorn
1886German
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Der Krankenfreund
Joseph Feller
1875German
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Der Kultus der Juden
Majer Bretzfeld, Joseph von Obernberg
1813German
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Der Kultus der heiligen Anna am Ausgange des Mittelalters
Ernst Schaumkell
1893German
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Der Kultus des modernen Klavierspieles, besonders in den Pensionaten für die weibliche Jugend
Charitas
1890German