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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Descrittione della pompa funerale che si celebrò nella città di Napoli per la morte di d. Elisabetta Borbone, reina di Spagna
Egidio Longo
1645Italian
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Hymne funebre chante au champ de la Fe de ration le 3 juin 1792 dans la cere monie de cre te e pour la me moire de J.G. Simoneau, maire d'Estampes, mort victime de son de vouement a la patrie
Jean-Antoine Roucher, France. Assemblée nationale législative, Gossec, François Joseph, publisher Institution nationale des sourds-muets de Paris
1792French
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Johannis Nicolai ... Libri IV. de sepulchris hebraeorum
Johann Nicolai, Henryk Teerink
1706Latin
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Languages, Objects, and the Transmission of Rituals
Ciampini, Emanuele Marcello | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-, Crippa, Sabina | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-
2017Italian
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Prestidigitation
Paul Häberlin
1870
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Relazione de' funerali solenni celebrati nel tempio di S. Domenico in Modena per ordine di Sua Altezza Serenissima il signor duca Francesco III gloriosamente regnante, alla fu serenissima signora duchessa Carlotta Aglae Borbone d'Orleans d'Este, amatissima sua consorte
Giovanni Granelli, Eredi di Bartolomeo Soliani, Carlo di Aurelio Manfredi, Emilio Manfredi, Pietro Termianini
1761Italian
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The Hierophant; or, Gleanings from the past. Being an exposition of biblical astronomy, and the symbolism and mysteries on which were founded all ancient religions and secret societies. Also an explanation of the dark sayings and allegories which abound in the pagan, Jewish and Christian bibles: also, the real sense of the doctrines and observances of the modern Christian churches
G. C. Stewart
1859
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The divine programme of the world's history
Henry Grattan Guinness
1842
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The ritual of the temple of Râmêśvaram in Southern India
James Burgess
1884
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Wald- und Feldkulte
Wilhelm Mannhardt
1875German
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Your future revealed by the gods of Greece, in the words of Shakespere
William Shakespeare, Carrie W. Hawley, Ruth Windsor
1893
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Funerali nella morte dell'ill.mo et r.mo sig. card.le Horatio Spinola arciuescouo di Genoua
Gian Vincenzo Imperiale, Girolamo Gessi, Giuseppe Pavoni
1616Italian
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Histoire de la civilisation morale et religieuse des Grecs
Petrus van Limburg Brouwer
1833French
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Il sagro rito delle funzioni, che si fanno nel trasporto del cadavere del Sommo Pontefice dal palazzo Quirinale alla basilica Vaticana
Arcangelo Casaletti
1774Italian
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Memorial of the installation of the Most Rev. Dr. O'Connor and explanation of the ceremonies, St. Michael's Cathedral, Toronto, 3rd May, 1899
James Power Treacy
1899
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Myth-land
F. Edward Hulme
1886
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Naenia Cornubiae, a descriptive essay, illustrative of the sepulchres and funereal customs of the early inhabitants of the county of Cornwall
William Copeland Borlase
1872
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Opinion de Merlin (de Thionville) sur les fe tes nationales, prononce e a la Convention nationale dans la se ance du 9 vende miaire, an troisie me de la Re publique
Antoine-Christophe Merlin de Thionville, France. Convention nationale, publisher Imprimerie nationale
1794French
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Phallic miscellanies
Hargrave Jennings
1891
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Rites and customs of the church
John Henry Newman
1834
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Shinto (the way of the gods)
William George Aston
1905
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Snakes: curiosities and wonders of serpent life
Catherine Cooper Hopley
1882
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The Mysteries of Free Masonry
William Morgan
1850
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The basis of relgion
Alfred Williams Momerie
1890