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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Theophrastos' Schrift über Frömmigkeit
Jacob Bernays
1866German
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Theorie des Kultus der evangelischen Kirche
Theodor Kliefoth
1844German
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Theorie des christlichen Cultus
Friedrich Ehrenfeuchter
1840German
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Thesaurus Graecarum Antiquitatum
Jacobus Gronovius
1702Latin
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Thesaurus Politicorum Aphorismorum
Jean de Chokier
1687Latin
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Thesaurus ecclesiasticus
Johann Caspar Schweizer
1682Latin
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Thesavrvs Sacrorvm Ritvvm, Sev Commentaria In Rvbricas Missalis Et Breviarii Romani
Bartolommeo Gavanti
1634Latin
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Theses Catholicae Doctrinae
Georg Theander
1556Latin
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Thomae Goodwini Moses Et Aaron seu Civiles & Ecclesiastici Ritus
Thomas Godwin
1716Latin
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Topographie der Bukowina zur Zeit ihrer Erwerbung durch Oesterreich (1774 - 1785)
Daniel Werenka
1895German
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Tractatus De Paschate, Altero Veteris Testamenti Sacramento
Sebastian Schmidt
1685Latin
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Tractatus de phyllobolia seu florum et ramorum sparsione in sacris et civilibus rebus usitatissima
Johann Nicolai
1698Latin
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Trismegistus Christianus seu triplex cultus
Jeremias Drexel
1627Latin
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Trismegistvs Christianvs seu Triplex Cultus
Jeremias Drexel
1625Latin
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Tuḥfat as-sāʾil bi-ṭaraf al-masāʾil - BSB Cod.arab. 358
Ibn-Razīn, ʿAbd-al-Laṭīf Ibn-Muḥammad Ibn-al-Ḥusain
1373Arabic
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Typvs Ecclesiae Prioris
Georg Witzel
1541German
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Ueber Neubelebung des evangelischen Cultus
Gustav Carus
1854German
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Ueber das Verhältniß der Kunst zum Kultus
Carl Meyer
1837German
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Ueber das Wesen des protestantischen Cultus
Karl Peter Matthias Lüdemann
1846German
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Ueber den Cultus der Madonna
Hermann Spörri
1872NOT
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Ueber den Entwurf eines neuen (Katholischen) Rituals oder: Soll man itzt den Cultus reformiren?
Wilhelm Mercy
1806German
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Ueber den Kultus der lutherschen Kirche, insonderheil über das Princip der Ordnung des Hauptgottesdienstes dersellen
Caspar Otto Friedrich Aichel
1854NOT
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Ueber den Perowskit
Alfredo Ben Saude
1882NOT
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Ueber den Polytheismus
Karl Arnold
1874NOT