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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Physikalisch-physiologische Untersuchungen
Karl Freiherr von Reichenbach, Karl Reichenbach
1850German
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Publicum Caroli Sangrii et Josephi Capycii nobilium Neapolitanorum funus a Carolo Austrio III. Hispan. Indiar. & Neap. rege indictum et ab illiustrissimo, excellentissimoque viro Wirico com. de Daun ... curatum
Francesco de Grado, Giambattista Vico, Wirich Daun, Benedetto Laudati, Felix Carolus Musca, Fran Scor
1708Latin
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Rapport de Robespierre, au nom du Comite de salut public, du 18 flore al
Maximilien Robespierre, David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825. Plan de la fête à l'Étre suprême, qui doit être célébrée le 20 prairial, France. Convention nationale, France. Convention nationale. Comité de salut public, Société populaire de Montauban
1794French
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Representacion hecha al superior gobierno á favor del finado M. R. P. Fr. Francisco Javier Carvallo
Juan Antonio Azevedo
1821Spanish
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Rome
Mourant Brock
1883
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The Kusumánjali
Udayanacarya, Hari Dasa. Kusumañjalikarikavyakhya Bharttacharya
1864
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A short survey of the vedic polytheism and pantheism
Ferdinand Kittel
1865
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An essay of instruction, on animal magnetism
A.-M.-J Chastenet marquis de Puységur, John King, Armand Marie Jacques de Chastenet Puységur
1837
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Animal magnetism examined
John Martin
1790
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Feather symbol in ancient Hopi design
Jesse Walter Fewkes
1898
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Forms for special occasions
Herrick Johnson
1889
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Mesmerism in disease
Henry Storer
1845
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Odic-magnetic letters
Karl Freiherr von Reichenbach, John Scherter Hittel, Karl Reichenbach
1860
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Poseidôn: a link between Semite, Hamite, and Aryan
Robert Brown
1872
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Ritual of Masonic service for the burial of the dead
J. B. Sackett
1870
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Rome: pagan and papal
Mourant Brock
1883
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The Christian cemetery in the nineteenth century
Jean Gaume
1874
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The Jaffna College and medical missions in North Ceylon
Mary Leitch
1893
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The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c
Samuel Boyse, William Cooke
1787
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The higher vitapathy
John Bunyan Campbell
1884
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Wonders and mysteries of animal magnetism displayed
George Winter, University of Glasgow. Library
1791
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Zoological sketches
Felix Leopold Oswald
1883
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A lecture on the magnetism of the human body
Robert W. Gibbes, Robert Robert Wilson Gibbes
1843
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Centenary ...
Georgetown University
1889