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
The Gros Ventres of Montana
John John Montgomery Cooper, Regina Flannery
1953
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The Living Christ and Dying Heathenism: The Experiences of a Missionary in Animistic Heathendom
Joh. Warneck
1909
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The Night Life of the Gods
Thorne Smith
1931
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The Origins of Mexican Catholicism: Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-century Mexico
Osvaldo F Pardo
2004
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The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town
Lesley Alexandra Sharp
1994
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The Religious Experience of the Roman People, From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
W. Warde Fowler
1922
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The Religious System of the Amazulu: Izinyanga Zokubula, or, Divination, As Existing Among the Amazulu, in Their Own Words, With a Translation Into English, and Notes
Henry Callaway
1870
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The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
Manly Manly Palmer Hall
1928
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The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of The Teton Dakota
James R. Walker
1917
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The Syrian Goddess: Being a Translation of Lucian's "De Dea Syria", With a Life of Lucian
Lucian, of Samosata|* Lucian of Samosata
1913
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The Thunder Ceremony of the Pawnee
Ralph Linton
1922
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The Tusayan Ritual: A Study on the Influence of Environment on Aboriginal Cults
Jesse Walter Fewkes
1895
The philosophy of animal magnetism
Gentleman of Philadelphia, Edgar Allan Poe
1837
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Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker
Sigmund Freud
1922German
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Tuamotuan Religious Structures and Ceremonies
Kenneth P Emory
1947
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Tālamāna or Iconometry: Being a Concise Account of the Measurements of Hindu Images as Given in the Āgamas and Other Authoritative Works
T. A Gopinatha Rao
1920
Vital magnetism
Thomas Pyne, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1845
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Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986
Martin W Lewis
1992
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With Good Heart: Yaqui Beliefs and Ceremonies in Pascua Village
Muriel Thayer Painter
1986
A View of all religions and the religious ceremonies of all nations at the present day
Thomas Robbins
1824
A letter to the theological professors at New Haven concerning their supposition that God may not have been able to prevent sin in a moral system
Levi Nelson
1848
ANUNNAKI ULEMA BARIDU TECHNIQUE
Maximillien De Lafayette
2010
Anaxagoras, Origen, and Neoplatonism
Panayiotis Tzamalikos
2015
Ancient Aliens - Modern Mardukites
Joshua Free, Mardukite Chamberlains
2011