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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The gentleman and lady's key to polite literature, or, A compendious dictionary of fabulous history
Thomas Carnan
1783
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Beschryvinge van het zeven honderdjaerig jubile van den Heyligen Macarius, bezonderen patroon tegen de peste
Norbert Heylbrouck, P. Wauters, Lieven Wouters
1767Dutch
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Histoire des religions de la Grèce antique depuis leur origine jusqu'à leur complète constitution
L.-F.-Alfred Maury
1857French
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Le imagini dei degli antichi
Vincenzo Cartari
1608Italian
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Oracion funebre en las reales exeqvias del Rey N.S. don Luis I.
Fermín de Irisarri, Luis Montt
1725Spanish
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Orazione di m. Gio. Batista Adriani fatta in latino all'esseqvie del sereniss. Cosimo de Medici, gran duca di Toscana
Giovanni Battista Adriani, Marcello Adriani
1574Italian
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Private instructions in the science and art of organic magnetism
Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace
1885
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Rapport fait au nom du Comite de salut public, par Maximilien Robespierre, sur les rapports des ide es religieuses & morales avec les principes re publicains, & sur les fe tes nationales
Maximilien Robespierre, David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825. Plan de la fête de l'Être suprême, qui doit être célébrée le 20 prairial, France. Convention nationale, France. Convention nationale. Comité de salut public, publisher Imprimerie nationale, David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825. Plan de la fête à l'Étre suprême, qui doit être célébrée le 20 prairial, Seine-Inférieure. Directoire, Jean-Lambert Tallien, UzèFrance
1794French
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The Mideẃiwin
Walter James Hoffman
1891
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The Religious ceremony of the four winds or quarters, as observed by the Santee Sioux
Alice C. Fletcher, Alice Alice Cunningham Fletcher
1885
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Zur Festordnung der grossen Dionysien
Julius Dutoit, Julius Franz Gustav Dutoit
1898German
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Delle lodi della cesarea maesta di Leopoldo I. imperatore
Giuseppe Maria Martelli, Anton Maria Albizzini
1705Italian
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Joh. Baptistae Casalii Romani De profanis et sacris veteribus ritibus, opus tripartitum ...
Giovanni Battista Casali, Thomas Heinrich Hauenstein
1681Latin
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La prima musa Clio
George Baldwin, Cesare Avena de Valdiere
1802
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Orthodoxy and the heathen
Joseph Hine Rylance, Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
1887
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Pantheum mythicum
François Pomey, Andrew Tooke
1694
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Beschreibung einer allerunterthänigsten Freudens-Bezeigung, welche wegen hoher Geburth dess durchleüchtigsten Ertz-Hertzogens von Oesterreich und Printzens von Asturien Leopoldi, Joannis, Josephi, Antonij, Francisci de Paula, Hermenegildi, Rudolphi, Ignatij, Balthasaris, die in Prag wohnende Judenschafft in grossen Jubel den 18. May dieses 1716. Jahres mit Anstellung eines schön- und kostbahren Auffzugs und Auffrichtung einer herzlichen Ehren-Pforten gehalten
Johann Wentzel Helm, Jan Hiller
1716German
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Descrizione de' funerali a monsignore Giambattista Stella
Antonio Bonetti, Luigi Maria Sambuceti, Santa Margherita, Stamperìa di Lelio dalla Volpe
1760Italian
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Essai sur les fe tes nationales
François-Antoine Boissy d'Anglas, Boissy d'Anglas, François-Antoine, comte de, Boissy d'Anglas, François-Antoine, comte de, 1756-1826. Quelques idées sur les arts, sur la nécessité de les encourager, et sur divers établissemens nécessaires a l'enseignement public, France. Convention nationale
1793French
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Greek folk-songs from the Turkish provinces of Greece, Albania, Thessaly, ... and Macedonia
Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John S. Stuart-Glennie
1885
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Hebrew-Babylonian affinities
George Margoliouth
1899
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The history and chronology of the fabulous ages
Francis Wise, Society of Antiquaries of London, George Peabody Library, Sheridan Libraries
1764
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A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians
Thomas Joseph Pettigrew
1834
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Conversation in heaven
Thomas Lake Harris
1894