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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Discorso panegirico in onore di S. Filomena v. e m.
1841Italian
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Disp. ... de idolo laudabili, qua deorum martyrumque cultus huiusque vitia inter se conferuntur
A. E Kniggen, Jonas Conrad Schramm
1707NOT
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Disp. hist.-iur. inaug. de Gulielmi I., Principis Arausiae, liberi cultus divini, liberaeque conscientiae Vindicis, iuribus in summum imperium in comitatu Hollandiae
Dirk van Hogendorp
1822NOT
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Disp. theol. ... de sententiis amicorum Iobi ad detegenda primordia falsi cultus
Philipp Ludwig Buch, Nicolaus Nonnen
1757NOT
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Disputatio Theologica Demonstrans Fundamentum Romani Cultus Ex Vera Antiquitate Falsum
Daniel Cramer, Johann Georg Dorsche
1630NOT
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Disputatio Theologica Inauguralis De Ortu Et Progressu Cultus Reliqviarum
Thomas Steger
1668Latin
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Disquisitio de Chirothecarum usu & abusu, in qua varii ritus , varia iura & symbola illarum fuse exhibentur
Johann Nicolai
1701Latin
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Diss. acad. de prima cultus divini publici institutione, ad Genes. IV,26
Nicolaus W Schröder, Johann J Schweinsberger
1745NOT
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Diss. grad. de origine ritus nudandi pedes in locis sacris
Andreas Boberg, Nicolaus Feltström
1737NOT
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Diss. inaug. de exorcismi origine, mutatione, deque huius ritus peragendi ratione
Carl Wilhelm Wiedenfeld
1824NOT
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Diss. philol., ritus veterum, et speciatim morem Ebraeorum, dissectione animalium transituque per eorum segmenta foedera ineundi exponens ex Genes. XV, 9 seqq
J Schneegaß, Christian Anton August Slevogt
1759NOT
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Diss. philos. de necessitate cultus Dei externi
D Rydman, Fabian Törner
1730NOT
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Dissertatio Apologetica, Qua Cultus Ss. Angelorum, Et Praesertim Celeberrima S. Michaelis Archangel In Monte Gargano Apparitio Ab Iniustis Vexis Et Censuris Vindicatur
Joseph Lederer
1761Latin
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Dissertatione Juridica Actorem Ad Agendum Invitum
Heinrich von Cocceji
1709Latin
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Dissertationes Dogmaticae De Exteriore Dei Cultu. Adoratione Eucharistiae, Et Sacrificio Nobilissima Divini Cultus Specie. De Inventione, Et Adoratione S. Crucis, Caeterorumque Dominicae Passionis Instrumentorum. Meditatione, Et Oratione Christi. De Invocatione, Cultu, Et Veneratione Beatissimae Virginis Mariae, Angelorum, Et Caeterorum Sanctorum. De Sacris Caeremoniis, Variis Beneditionibus, Ieiuniis, Et Festis. Compendiosa Methodo Digestae
Otto Sprug
1771Latin
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Divus Sebastianus Eberspergae Boiorum Propitius, Seu Cultus Eiusdem Gloriosi Martyris à Prima Loci Fundatione Ad Nostra Usque Tempora Propagatus, Et Nunc Publicae Luci Datus
Adam Widl
1688Latin
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Divus Sebastianus Eberspergae Boiorum propitius
Adam Widl
1688Latin
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Eco festiua de monti, che fan risonare per il mondo le glorie e i trionfi della gloriosa patrona S. Rosalia vergine palermitana
1690Italian
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Eduardi Leighii, Artium in utraque Universitate Oxoniensi ac Cantabrigiensi Magistri, In Universum Novum Testamentum Annotationes Philologicae & Theologiae
Edward Leigh
1732Latin
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Ein Wort zur rechten Zeit an meine Brüder
Johann C Pflaum
1814German
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Eine Skizze über den Kirchengesang und das Kirchenlied
August Hermann Schick
1859German
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Einleitung in die Götterlehre und Fabelgeschichte der ältesten griechischen und roemischen Welt
Christian Tobias Damm
1763German
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Enchiridion juris ecclesiae orientalis catholicae
Iosif Papp-Szilágyi
1862Latin
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Enchiridion sacerdotum
de Monte Rocherii Guido
1564Latin