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.
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- 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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Magnetismus und Hypnotismus; eine Darstellung dieses Gebietes
Gustav Wilhelm Gessmann
1895German
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Observations sur le magn©♭tisme animal
Charles d'Eslon, M. d' Eslon
1780French
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Piṇḍapitṛyajna, das manenopfer mit klössen bei den Indern
Otto Donner
1870German
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Pr©♭cis historique des faits relatifs au magn©♭tisme-animal jusques en avril 1781 ...
Franz Anton Mesmer, Louis-Sébastien Mercier
1781French
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Recueil d'observations et de faits relatifs au magn©♭tisme animal, pr©♭s©♭nt©♭ © l'auteur de cette d©♭couverte
Archbold M, Société de l'harmonie de Guienne
1785French
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Sefer ha-ḥayim
Sal. Ephr Blogg
1850German
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Suite du traitement magn©♭tique de la demoiselle N.
T. D. M, Tardy de Montravel n 86817877
1786French
Apocalypse of the Alien God
Dylan M. Burns
2014
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Arabian Nights
Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford, Green Longmans, Spottiswoode & Co. prt
1898
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Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians
James Stevenson
Date unknown
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Curiosities of natural history
Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Francis Francis Trevelyan Buckland
1857
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Die sogenannte Theologie des Aristoteles aus arabischen handschriften zum ersten mal heratisgegehen
[Kitāb Uthūlūjiyā Arisṭāṭl̄aīs, [Kitb Uthljiy Arislas, called Ibn Nimah Abd al-Mas ibn Abd Allh, Aristotle. Theologia. Arabic, Friedrich Heinrich Dieterici, d. ca. 873 Kind, Plotinus. Enneades IV-VI. Paraphrases. Arabic, Porphyry
1882German
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Gods and heroes, or, The kingdom of Jupiter
Robert Edward Francillon
1892
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Histoire de la destruction du paganisme dans l'Empire d'Orient
Étienne Louis Chastel, Étienne Chastel
1850French
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Histoire de relations politiques de la Chine avec les puissances occidentales depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'a nos jours suivie du Cérémonial observé à la cour de Pé-king pour la réception des ambassadeurs
Jean Pierre Guillaume Pauthier
1859French
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L' ame et la vie
Émile Saisset
1864French
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L' immaterialité de l'âme
Giacinto Sigismondo Gerdil
1747French
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La Russie dévoilée au moyen de sa littérature populaire
Eugène Hins
1883French
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Le Tcheou-li
Chou li, Edouard Constant Biot
1851French
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Le renard
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Édouard Grenier, Jules Claye
1867French
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Lettres sur le magnétisme animal, considéré sous le point de vue physiologique et psychologique
Charles de La Salzède
1847French
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Panégyrique du B. Fourier
Henri-Dominique Lacordaire
1853French
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Samskararatnamala
Gopi Nath Bhatt, Kainatha Sastri Agashe, Hari Narayan Apte, Baba Sastri Phadke
1898Sanskrit
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The Myths And Legends Of Ancient Greece
E. M. Berens
1880