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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Cremation of the Dead: Its History and Bearings Upon Public Health
William Eassie
1875
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Faith, folk and the far right
Dominic Alessio, Robert Wallis, Robert J. Wallis
2025
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Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths
Thomas Sir Browne, Thomas Browne
1646
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Serpent-worship
Charles Staniland Wake
1886
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Signposts to Silence. Metaphysical mysticism
J.S Krüger, Julia Krüger
2018
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The Alósaka cult of the Hopi Indians
Jesse Walter Fewkes
1899
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The New Age of Russia. Occult and Esoteric Dimensions
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Michael Hagemeister, Birgit Menzel
2012
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The Tusayan ritual
Jesse Walter Fewkes
1896
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The age of fable
Thomas Bulfinch, Edward Everett Hale
1800
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Animismus und spiritismus
Aleksandr Aksakov, Aleksandr Nikolaevič Aksakov, Eduard von Hartmann, Gregor Constantin Wittig
1890German
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The Origin Of Pagan Idolatry Ascertained From Historical Testimony And Circumstantial Evidence
George Stanley Faber
1816
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Apophasis and pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite
Charles M. Stang
2012
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M. Tullii Ciceronis De natura deorum libri tres
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Joseph Joseph Bickersteth Mayor, John Houghton Swainson
1718Latin
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The religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Morris Jastrow Jr, Morris Jastrow
1898
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The year book of daily recreation and information, concerning remarkable men and manners, times and seasons, solemnities and merry-makings, antiquities and novelties
William Hone
1832
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Observations on the popular antiquities of Great Britain
John Brand, Henry Ellis, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
1848
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Histoire critique du magn©♭tisme animal
Joseph Philippe François Deleuze
1813French
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The song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus, Grace Chandler Horn, John Sir Gilbert, Jeff Ulmer, Alex A. Blum, Making of America Project, Woodrow W Morris
1855
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Craftsman and Freemason's Guide
Cornelius Moore, Freemasons. Constitutions. [from old catalog], Making of America Project
1851
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An history of magic, witchcraft, and animal magnetism
John Campbell Colquhoun
1851
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An introduction to folk-lore
Marian Emily Roalfe Cox, Marian Roalfe Cox
1895
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The last vvill and testament of Basil Valentine, monke of the Order of St. Bennet
Basilius Valentinus
1671
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Isis revelata: an inquiry into the origin, progress, and present state of animal magnetism
John Campbell Colquhoun
1836
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Psyche: Seelencult und Unsterblichkeitsglaube der Griechen
Erwin Rohde
1894German