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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De neocoria
Wilhelm Buechner
1888Italian
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Der Fetisch an der Küste Guinea's auf den deutscher Forschung nähergerückten Stationen der Beobachtung
Adolf Bastian
1884German
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Des decorations funebres
Claude-François Menestrier
1684French
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Des divinit gatrices
J.-A Dulaure, J.-Jacques-Antoine Dulaure
1805French
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Description du mausolée pour très-haute, très puissante & très-excellente princesse Marie Josephe Albertine de Saxe, dauphine de France, fait à Paris dans l'église de Nôtre-Dame, le 3 Septembre 1767
Denis Pierre Jean Papillon de La Ferté
1767French
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Die griechischen Sakralaltertümer und das Bühnenwesen der Griechen und Römer
Paul Stengel, Oehmichen, Gustav, 1846-. Bühnenwesen der Griechen und Römer
1890German
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Dupotet de Sennevoy, elementare Darstellung des thierischen Magnetismus
J. Dupotet, Hugo. no 94003204 Hartmann
1851German
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Griechische Götterideale in ihren Formen erläutert
Enrico Brunn
1893German
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I magnetizzatori giudicati da loro stessi nuova investigazione sul magnetismo animale
G. Mabru
1859Italian
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La magie au dix-neuvième siècle, ses agents, ses vérités, ses mensonges
Roger Gougenot Des Mousseaux
1860French
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Le merveilleux dans le Jansénisme
Hippolyte Blanc
1865French
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Le svntvosissime eseqvie celebrate nella mag.ca città di Bergamo in morte dello ill.mo signor Astorre Baglioni
1572Italian
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O pogrebalʹnykh obychai︠a︡kh
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kotli︠a︡revskiĭ, Kotli︠a︡revskīĭ, A. A, KotliÍ¡arevskiÄ, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich
1868Russian
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Recherches historiques et critiques sur la morgue
Firmin Maillard
1860French
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Relazione delle cerimonie, e solennita, seguite dopo la morte del Sommo Pontefice Innocenzo XIII. nel trasporto del suo cadavere alla Basilica Vaticana e nell'esequie ivi celebrategli dal Sacro Collegio
Pietro Ferr
1724Italian
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Seder Biḳur ḥolim, Maʻavar Yaboḳ ṿe-Sefer ha-ḥayim
Eliezer Landshuth
1867German
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Traité théorique et pratique du magnétisme animal
Amédée Doppet, François Amédée Doppet
1784French
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Two Treatises of Proclus, the Platonic Successor: The Former Consisting of Ten Doubts Concerning Providence, and a Solution of Those Doubts; and the Latter Containing a Development of the Nature of Evil
Proclus, approximately 410-485|* Proclus, Proclus
1833
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Vedic mythology
Arthur Anthony Macdonell
1897
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Andeutungen über den ursprünglichen religions- unterschied der römischen patricier und plebejer
Mimmo Pellegrino
1842German
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Beitrage zu den durch animalischen magnetismus zeither bewirkten erscheinungen
Samuel Wilhelm Arndt
1816German
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Das Mithreum von Neuenheim bei Heidelberg, erläutert von Friedrich Creuzer
Georg Friedrich Creuzer
1838German
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Der Kampf des Christenthums mit dem Heidenthum
Gerhard Uhlhorn
1875German
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Die homerische theologie in ihrem zusammenhange dargestellt
Karl Friedrich von Nägelsbach
1840German