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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Curiosities of the Church: Studies of Curious Customs, Services and Records
William Andrews
1890
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Animal intelligence
George John Romanes, Alfred Binet, John Elliotson, James Esdaile, Robert Macnish
1834
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Animal magnetism
Theodore Leger, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1846
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Aristophanes
Aristophanes, Cornelius Conway Felton, Benjamin Hall Kennedy, William Charles Green
1824
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Comparative physiognomy
James W. Redfield
1852
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Progress of animal magnetism in New England
Charles Poyen
1837
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Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis
Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius, Vesaliensis Arnoldus, Marcus Tullius. Somnium Scipionis Cicero, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Saturnalia Macrobius
1515Latin
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Natalis Comitis Mythologiae, sive, Explicationis fabularum libri decem
Natale Conti, Claude Ptolémée, Henricus Institoris, Jakob Sprenger, Damião de Góis, Johann Boemus, Joachim Vadian
1494Latin
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Humbugs of New-York
David Meredith Reese, Benno Loewy
1838
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The mummy
E. A. Wallis Budge
1893
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The Old Testament prophecy of the consummation of God's kingdom
Conrad von Orelli, Conrad Orelli, Hans Conrad von Orelli
1885
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Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde
Bernard Picart
1723French
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Fetichism and Fetich worshipers...
Pierre Baudin, Noël Baudin, Mary McMahon, Augustin Planque, Mary tr McMahon, Baudin r. p
1885
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Spiritism and the cult of the dead in antiquity
Lewis Bayles Paton
1921
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Animal magnetism
William Gregory
1877
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Hindu Mythology
William Joseph Wilkins
1882
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The medicine-men of the Apache
John Gregory Bourke, ninth Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Annual report
1892
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After Life in Roman Paganism
Franz Cumont
1922
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Beast and man in India
John Lockwood Kipling
1891
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell, J. C. Gorham
1870
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Christianity as mystical fact and the mysteries at antiquity. --
Rudolf Steiner, Harry Collison, Clifford Venho, David Ecklund, Édouard Schuré, Conscience Arts, Christopher Bamford, Andrew Welburn, Michael Debus
1902
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Lamb's adventures of Ulysses
Charles Lamb, John Davis Batchelder Collection DLC, Homer Charles Lamb
1808
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Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina
William Drake Westervelt
1910
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Method in the study of totemism
Andrew Lang
1911