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 Book of Idols
-819? Ibn al-Kalbi
Date unknown
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The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars: Celestial Sex, Earthly Destruction, and Dramatic Sublimation in Homer's Odyssey
Alfred De Grazia
Date unknown
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The Divine Succession: A Science of Gods Old and New
Alfred De Grazia
Date unknown
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The Great Flying Saucer Myth
Kelly L Segraves
Date unknown
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The Homeric Hymns: A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological
Andrew Lang
Date unknown
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The Last Salute: Civil and Military Funerals, 1921-1969
Billy C Mossman, M. W Stark
Date unknown
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Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion
Jane Ellen Harrison
Date unknown
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Theogony
Hesiod
Date unknown
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Understanding Cults and New Religions
Irving Hexham, Karla O Poewe
Date unknown
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Zuni Ceremonialism
Ruth Leah Bunzel
Date unknown
Abrégé de l'histoire des magnétiseurs de Lyon
Nouveau converti, Un nouveau converti
1784French
Entretiens sur le magnétisme animal et le sommeil magnétique dit somnambulisme
Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1823French
Essai sur les probabilités du somnambulisme magnétique
Fournel M, Jean-François Fournel, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1785French
Histoire de la guérison d'une jeune personne, par le magnétisme animal, produit par la nature elle-même
Friedrich Karl von Strombeck, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1814French
Il magnetismo animale considerato secondo le leggi della natura e principalmente diretto alla cura delle malattie
Francesco Guidi
1860Italian
Le magnétisme a la recherche d'une position sociale
Antoine J. Gérard, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1866French
Le magnétisme opposé à la médecine
Jules Dupotet
1840French
Les phénomènes de la folie
Gabriel Pélin, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1866French
Lettres de M. Mesmer, a messieurs les auteurs du Journal de Paris, et a M. Franklin
Franz Anton Mesmer
1784French
Suite des Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire et l'établissement du magnetisme animal
A.-M.-J Chastenet marquis de Puységur, A.-M.-Armand-Marie-Jacques Chastenet de Puységur, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1785French
Théorie positive des phénomènes étudiés sous la dénomination de magnétisme animal
Louis Auguste Segond, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
1854French
Wahrnehmungen einer Seherin
Seherin, Johann Friedrich von Meyer
1827German
›De arte magorum‹
Matthias Reif, Christiane Reitz
2016German
" Seid fröhlich in Hoffnung. " Motette ... Op. 77. Für Männerchor
Albert Ernst Anton Becker
1875