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
- Read free
Das Buch der Mysterien: Geschichte der Geheimen Lehren, Gebräuche und Gesellschaften Aller Zeiten und Völker
Otto Henne am Rhyn
1891German
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Die Griechischen Sakralaltertümer; und Das Bühnenwesen der Griechen und Römer
Frank Oehmichen, Paul Stengel
1890German
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Die Lebenskräfte des Evangeliums: Missionserfahrungen Innerhalb des Animistischen Heidentums
Joh. Warneck
1908German
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Faith, Flowers, and Fiestas: The Yaqui Indian Year
Muriel Thayer Painter, Edwin Booth Sayles
1962
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Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France
Emily S Apter
1991
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Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of Native Customs and Superstitions
Robert Hamill Nassau
1904
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Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends
Michiko Iwasaka, Barre Toelken
1994
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Greek Altars, Origins and Typology, Including the Minoan-Mycenaean Offertory Apparatus: An Archaeological Study in the History of Religion
Constantine G Yavis
1949
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Head and Face Masks in Navaho Ceremonialism
Berard Haile
1947
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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition
Dwight Fletcher Reynolds
1995
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Kantharos: Studies in Dionysiac and Kindred Cult
George Wicker Elderkin
1924
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La Légende des "Grands Initiés"
Lucien Roure
1926French
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La Rituel Funéraire des Annamites: Étude d'Ethnographie Religieuse
Gustave Dumoutier
1904French
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Le Rituel du Culte Divin Journalier en Égypte; d'Après les Papyrus de Berlin et les Textes du Temple de Séti 1er, à Abydos
Alexandre Moret
1902French
Magic and ritual in the ancient world
Paul Mirecki, Marvin Meyer
1995
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Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea
Eric Kline Silverman
2001
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Messiah
Gore Vidal
1954
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Mithraism
William John Phythian-Adams
1915
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Modernist Heresies: British literary History, 1883-1924
Damon Franke
2008
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Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria
Lewis Spence
1916
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Nabaloi Law and Ritual
Claude Russell Moss
1920
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Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa
John M Janzen
1992
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O le Tafatolu o au Measina: Samoa
Fepulea'i Seuao F. Taeao Salua
1995
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Pagan Christs: Studies in Comparative Hierology
John Mackinnon Robertson
1903