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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Rituale Sive Compendium SS. Rituum & Caeremoniarum in Missa, Vesperis, alijsque Rebus Divinis observandum à Fratribus Minoribus S. P. Francisci Reformatae Provinciae Bavariae
Constantinus Hagerer
1729NOT
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Rituale Viennense Ad Usum Romanum Accomodatum
Christoph Anton von Migazzi
1774German
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Rituale ad usum dioeceseos Spirensis
Katholische Kirche. Diözese Speyer
1842Latin
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Rituale baptismi veteris
Joachim Hildebrand
1711NOT
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Rituale eucharistiae veteris ecclesiae
Joachim Hildebrand
1712Latin
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Rituale franciscanum
Bernhard Sannig
1685Latin
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Rituale orantium, vel compendium veterum orandi rituum ex sacris priscae praesertim ecclesiae antiquitatibus collectum
Joachim Hildebrand
1694NOT
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Rituale parochorum, in quo baptizandi, copulandique ratio, et similia, item et benedictiones continentur
Jiří Barthold Pontanus z Breitenberka
1609Latin
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Rituale, seu Manuale Peruanum et forma brevis administrandi apud Indos... sacramenta... per R. P. F. Ludovicum Hieronymum Orerium
Luis Jerónimo de Oré
1607Latin
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Ritus Ac Solenniss. Ceremoniae, Quibus Serenissimus Rex Poloniae Johannes III. Coronatus & Regno inauguratus fuit
Mathias Andreas Cosnowsky
1676Latin
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Ritus Exactus Servandus in Celebratione Missae Privatae
Constantinus Hagerer
1741Latin
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Ritus Universi Hierarchiae Ecclesiasticae In Novem Ordinis Dispertiti. 1, Ordo Primus De Romano Pontifice
da Annunciação Bernardo
1760Latin
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Ritus annuae ablutionis altaris majoris S. Basilicae vaticanae in die coenae domini
Giovanni C Battelli
1702NOT
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Ritus antiquus regum Sueogothorum per provincias circumeundi
Johan A Bellman, °Akerman, Laurentius
1708NOT
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Ritus bei Spendung der heiligen Firmung und bei der canonischen Visitation
Johann Baptist Petz
1894German
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Ritus celebrandi Missam secundum rubricas Missalis rom. et decreta S. rituum Congregationis
Georg Friedrich Wiedemann
1825NOT
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Ritus celebrandi Missam secundum rubricas Missalis romani et decreta Sacrae rituum Congregationis
Georg Friedrich Wiedemann
1829Italian
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Ritus dandi presbyterium Papae, cardinalibus et clericis
Pietro Moretti
1741NOT
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Ritus et celebratio phase iudeorum
Thomas Murner
1512Latin
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Ritus exactus in celebratione Missae privatae
Constantinus Hagerer
1716Latin
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Ritus exactus servandus in celebratione Missae
Constantinus Hagerer
1716NOT
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Ritus foederum gentis Ebraeae
Johann Ernst Gerhard, Johann Vogelhaupt
1650NOT
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Ritus ieiuniorum declamatorio charactere indutos in consessu eruditorum ... nonnulli Musarum alumni ... enarrabunt Rectore M. Nicolao Grefio
Nicolaus Grefe
1661NOT
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Ritus peri tes phryktorias, s. de excubiarum accensis ignibus actione, ad illustr. Thucyd. L. 3
Ph. J Burclin, Johann Stilico
1714NOT