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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Pagan Regeneration: A Study of Mystery Initiations in the Graeco-Roman World
Harold Harold Rideout Willoughby
1929
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Palestinian Figurines in Relation to Certain Goddesses Known Through Literature
James James Bennett Pritchard
1943
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Pascua: A Yaqui Village in Arizona
Edward Holland Spicer
1940
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Phallic Miscellanies: Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India
Hargrave Jennings
1891
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Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries
Edouard Schuré
1906
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Reading Death in Ancient Rome
Mario Erasmo
2008
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Recovery From Abusive Groups
Wendy Ford
1993
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Religious Ceremonies and Customs: or, The Forms of Worship Practised by the Several Nations of the Known World, From the Earliest Records to the Present Time
William Burder
1841
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Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture
Holly J Everett
2002
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Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House
Gilbert H Herdt
2003
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Select Works of Porphyry: Containing His Four Books On Abstinence From Animal Food; His Treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and His Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures; With an Appendix Explaining the Allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses
Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305|* Porphyry
1823
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Showing Signs of Violence: The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth-Century Headhunting Ritual
Kenneth M George
1996
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Social Origins; Primal Law
James Jasper Atkinson, Andrew Lang
1903
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Taboo, Magic, Spirits: A Study of Primitive Elements in Roman Religion
Eli Edward Burriss
1931
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The Arts of Orpheus
Ivan Ivan Mortimer Linforth
1941
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The Celestial Bear Comes Down to Earth: The Bear Sacrifice Ceremony of the Munsee-Mahican in Canada As Related by Nekatcit
Jesse Moses, Frank Frank Gouldsmith Speck
1945
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The Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet
Arthur Arthur Caswell Parker
1913
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The Complete Hindoo Pantheon, Comprising The Principal Deities Worshipped By The Natives of British India Throughout Hindoostan: Being a Collection of The Gods And Goddesses. Accompanied By a Succinct History And Descriptive of The Idols
E. A Rodrigues
1842
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The Divinity of the Roman Emperor
Lily Ross Taylor
1931
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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: A Study in Religious Sociology
Émile Durkheim
1915
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The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials: Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials
Erika Doss
2008
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The Erotics of History: An Atlantic African Example
Donald Donald Lewis Donham
2018
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The Fragments That Remain of the Lost Writings of Proclus, Surnamed the Platonic Successor
Proclus, approximately 410-485|* Proclus
1825
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The Gods of War: Sacred Imagery and the Decoration of Arms and Armor
Donald J LaRocca
1996