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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Description du catafalque et du cénotaphe érigés dans l'église de Paris, le 7 septembre 1774, pour très-grand, très-haut, très-puissant, et très-excellent prince, Louis XV, le Bien-Aimé, roi de France et de Navarre ...
Charles-Michel-Ange Challes
1774French
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Mythology, or, A history of the fabulous deities of the ancients
Monsigny Madame
1795
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Raccolta di quanto venne pubblicato in morte di S. M. I. R. A. l'imperatore Francesco Primo
Alessandro Angeli, Alessandro Sanquirico, Carlo Tinelli, Luigi Vigano
1835Italian
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Solenni esequie celebrate nel Duomo di Firenze per la morte dell' augustissimo imperatore Francesco Primo, Duca di Lorena e di Bar, Gran-Duca di Toscana &c. &c. &c., ordinate da S.A.R. Pietro Leopoldo, Arciduca d'Austria, Principe Reale di Ungheria e di Boemia, Gran-Duca di Toscana &c. &c
Giuseppe Zocchi, Giuseppe Ruggieri, Fabio Berardi, Santa Maria del Fiore
1765Italian
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The history of initiation, in twelve lectures
George Oliver
1855
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A world of wonders, or, Divers developments, showing the thorough triumph of animal magnetism in New England
Joel R. Peabody, David Claypoole Johnston
1838
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Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names, or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, by an interpretation of the names given to children by priestly authority, or assumed by prophets, kings and hierarchs
Thomas Inman
1872
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Aquila parentalis, sive, Funebris apparatus in funebre comitis Alberti de Grassis Bononiae senatoris, et Collegij Montis alti vice protectoris : eminentissimo ac reverendiss. Principi S.R.E. Cardinal Pallotto
Giacomo Monti
1663Italian
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Delle lodi dell'Altezza Reale del serenissimo Gio: Gastone VII. granduca di Toscana
Giuseppe Buondelmonti, Vincenzo Franceschini, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana
1737Italian
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Fragmenta sepulchralia
Matthew Holbeche Bloxam
1840
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Heinrich von Gent als repräsentant des christlichen platonismus im dreizehnten jahrhundert
Karl Werner
1878German
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Mental magic
Thomas F.S.A Welton, University of Glasgow. Library, Thomas Welton
1884
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Neurypnology ; or, the rationale of nervous sleep considered in relation to animal magnetism or mesmerism and illustrated by numerous cases of its successful application in the relief and cure of disease
James Braid, Arthur Edward Waite
1899
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Philosophie de l'Univers
Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, publisher Imprimerie de Du Pont, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Marie-Anne-Pierrette Lavoisier
1796French
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Racconto breue della funebre e pomposa caualcata fatta in occasione delle reali essequie di d. Elisabetta Borbone, reina di Spagna
Egidio Longo
1645Italian
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A letter to Col. Wm. L. Stone of New York on the facts related in his letter to Dr. Brigham, and a plain refutation of Durant's exposition of animal magnetism, &c
Charles Poyen, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1837
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De funere Francisci Romanorum electi Imperatoris et Magni Etruriae Ducis
Giovanni Fabbri, Mauro Antonio Tesi, Giuseppe Maria Elena
1766Latin
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Dialogue françois et bourguignon du recit des rejouissances faites à Dijon pour la naissance de Monseigneur duc de Bourgongne
Jean Flory
1682French
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Funerali nella morte del signor duca d. Gaetano Argento
Francesco de Grado, Felix Carolus Musca, Ferdinando Sanfelice, Ferdinando Strina
1731Italian
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Il vero eroismo, ossia, Adria serenata
Troilo Malipiero, Giuseppe Borsato, Giuseppe Cazzola, Giuseppe Libretto for: Farinelli
1815Italian
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Immortality triumphant
John Bovee Dods
1852
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Interment of the dead, a dictate of natural affection, sanctioned by the word of God, and the examples of the good in every age. A sermon delivered in Ipswich, second parish, July 23, 1818, on the occasion of reinterring the coffins which had been robbed of their contents
Robert Crowell
1818
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Nænia Cornubiæ
William Copeland Borlase
1872
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On the sentient faculty, and principles of human magnetism
Sigismund Ehrenreich Graf von Redern, Francis Corbaux, Sigismund Ehrenreich Redern
1819