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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An Introduction to Folk-lore
Marian Emily Roalfe Cox Marian Roalfe Cox
1895
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An Investigation of Some of Kalidasa's Views
Charles Harris
1884
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Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan
Edmund Gosse Toru Dutt
1882
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Antonius
Joseph Converse Heywood
1867
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Aristophanes' Apology: Including a Transcript from Euripides, Being the Last Adventure of Balaustion
Euripides Robert Browning
1875
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Arvan; or, the story of the sword. A poem
Herbert Todd
1875
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Aryan Civilization: Its Religious Origin and Its Progress
Fustel de Coulanges
1871
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Asgard and the Gods: Tales and Traditions of Our Northern Ancestors
F . Tegetmeyer W. Wägner
1880
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Asgard and the Gods: The Tales and Traditions of Our Northern Ancestors
M. W . Macdowall Wilhelm Wägner
1886
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Asiatic Studies, Religious and Social
Alfred Comyn Lyall
1882
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Assyrian Discoveries: An Account of Explorations and Discoveries on the Site of Nineveh, During
George Smith
1875
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Babylonian Life and History
Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
1884
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Ballads and Barrack-room Ballads
Rudyard Kipling
1893
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Bell's British Theatre
John Bell
1777
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Brunhild: A Tragedy from the Nibelung Saga
Emanuel Geibel
1879
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Compendium of classical literature
Charles Dexter Cleveland
1861
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Il mondo in lutto, o sia, La pompa funerale per la morte dell'invittissimo re Filippo V. monarca delle Spagne, padre della Sacra Real Maestà di Carlo III. Borbone, re di Napoli e di Sicilia, &c
Accademia de' pericolanti peloritani, Mihele de' Chiaramonti, Giovanni Cirino, Giuseppe Maria Ermanno, Giovanni Giorlando, 18th cent Rombi
1747Italian
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Sporting architecture
George Tattersall
1841
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The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation Shewn from the State of Religion in the
John Leland
1819
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The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses
Salignac de la Mothe -Fenelon
1847
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The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses. From the French of Salignac de La Mothe
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
1847
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The African Fabiola; Or, The Church of Carthage in the Days of Tertullian
Albert Pillet
1881
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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus & the Bacchanals of Euripides: With Passages from the Lyric and Later
Euripides Aeschylus
1865
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The Ainu of Japan: the religion, superstitions, and general history of the
John Batchelor
1892