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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The Amazons: A Lyrical Drama
Virna Woods
1891
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The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal
Stephen Denison Peet
1890
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The Art of Contentment
Richard Allestree
1677
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The Athanasian Creed, Extracted from the Apocalypse: Or Book of Revelations Explained
Emanuel Swedenborg
1841
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The Aztecs: Their History, Manners, and Customs
Lucien Biart
1886
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The Best Refvge for the Most Oppressed: In a Sermon Preached to the Honourable House of Commons
Simeon Ashe
1642
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The Bible and Islam: Or, The Influence of the Old and New Testaments on the
Henry Preserved Smith
1897
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The British Poets
Francis James Child
1865
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The British Poets: Including Translations
Jonathan Swift
1822
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The British Poets: Including Translations
Jonathan Swift British poets
1822
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The Lî kî
James Legge, Li chi. [from old catalog]
1885
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The mysteries of freemasonry; or, An exposition of the religious dogmas and customs of the ancient Egyptians; showing from the origin, nature, and object of the rites and ceremonies of remote antiquity, their identity with the order of modern masonry
John Fellows
1877
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The true origin, object, and organization of the Christian religion
Dupuis, Charles Southwell
1840
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A Collection of Hymns for the Use of Believers in Gods̓ Infinite and Immutable Love Manifested
William Worrall
1824
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A Comment on the Eleven First Verses of the Fourth Chapter of S. Matthew's Gospel, Concerning
D.D. Thomas Fuller
1652
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A Description of an Annuall World, Or, Briefe Meditations Upon All the Holy-daies in the Yeere
Edward Browne
1641
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A Dialogue on Wit and Folly
Frederick William Fairholt John Heywood
1846
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A Dissertation on Miracles: Designed to Shew that They are Arguments of a Divine Interposition
Hugh Farmer
1805
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A Fig for Fortune
Anthony Copley
1883
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A Hand-book of Mythology: Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
E. M. Berens
1894
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A History of Egypt
Joseph Grafton Milne John Pentland Mahaffy
1899
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A History of Egypt Under the Ptolemaic Dynasty
John Pentland Mahaffy
1899
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A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths, Retold by Children
Emma Louise Smythe
1896
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A Record of the Pyramids: A Drama in Ten Scenes
John Edmund Reade
1842