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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Ösvallásunk föistenei
Ferdinánd Barna
1881Hungarian
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A Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus: Exploring the Origins of the Cosmos
Thomas Taylor
1828
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Funeral notice
1863

Gnostic World
Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Jay Johnston, Gunner Mikkelsen, Garry Winston Trompf
2018
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A commentarie or exposition upon the prophecie of Habakkuk
Edward Marbury
1650
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The history of the house that Jack built
Sidney's Press, publisher John Babcock and Son, publisher S. Babcock & Co., printer Sidney's Press
1826
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Beautiful Joe
Marshall Saunders
1893
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Procès-verbal
1794French
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The Orphic Pantheon By G R S Mead
G.R.S. Mead
1896
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A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Eleusinian and Other Ancient Initiation Rites
Thomas Taylor
1811
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A new universal history of the religious rites, ceremonies, and customs of the whole world, or, A complete and impartial view of all the religions in the various nations of the universe, both antient and modern, from the creation down to the present time
William Hurd
1780
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La pompa fvnebre et le esseqvie del gia re christianissimo di Francia Francesco primo di qvesto nome
1547Italian
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The Origin of All Religious Worship; or, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Idolatry
Charles François Dupuis
1801
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The Pantheon: Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods and Most Illustrious Heroes, in a Short, Plain and Familiar Method by Way of Dialogue
François Pomey, Andrew Tooke
1698
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Angels, cherubim, and gods
1861
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Buddhism in its connexion with Brāhmanism and Hindūism, and in its contrast with Christianity
Monier Monier-Williams
1889
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Copia di vna lettera scritta sopra la entrata fatta nella citta di Ferrara dallo illustrissimo, & eccellentissimo signor Alfonso secondo, & duca quinto, con la festa, & applauso fatto per la creatione, & coronatione di la Sua Eccellentia
1559Italian
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Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods
William Drake Westervelt
1916
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Bell’s Pantheon: Or Historical Dictionary of the Heathen Gods and Heroes
Robert Bell
1851
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An exposition by way of supplement, on the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth chapters of the prophecy of Amos
Thomas Hall
1661
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Correspondence relating to the prohibition of burials in the Back Bay Sands
1855
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Essays on some of the peculiarities of the Christian religion
Richard Whately
1837
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Our British Ancestors: Who and What Were They?
Sabine Baring-Gould
1870
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An Archaic Dictionary: Biographical and Historical Notes on Ancient Names
Thomas Inman
1876