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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Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry and the emperor Julian against the Christians; also extracts from
Libanius Celsus
1830
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Arnold's Eclogæ Ovidianæ, tr. with notes by T.W. Serjeant
Publius Ovidius Naso
1849
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Aryan civilization, based on the work [La cité antique] of De Coulanges
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Thomas Childe Barker
1871
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As it is in heaven
Lucy Larcom
1891
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Asgard and the gods, tales and traditions of our Northern ancestors, adapted from the work of W
Maria Wilhelmina Macdowall
1884
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Aspasia: A Romance of Art and Love in Ancient Hellas
Mary J. Safford Robert Hamerling
1881
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BOOK FOR STUDENTS
M. A T. CLAYTON
1878
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Ballads and Barrack-room Ballads: And Barrack-room Ballads
Rudyard Kipling
1898
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Beginnings: According to the Legends and According to the Truer Story
Allen Walton Gould
1893
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Belief in God: An Examination of Some Fundamental Theistic Problems
William Henry Savage Minot Judson Savage
1881
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Brutus; or, The fall of Tarquin, an historical tragedy: An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts
John Howard Payne
1818
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Primitive culture, researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, languages, art and customs
Edward Edward Burnett Tylor
1877
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Religious ceremonies and customs, or, The forms of worship practised by the several nations of the known world, from the earliest records to the present time
Charles Charles Augustus Goodrich, Colin MacKenzie, Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733. Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde
1834
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Seventh annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-'86
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
1891
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The Adventures of Ulysses
Homer Charles Lamb
1892
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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, tr. by a Balliol man
Aeschylus
1880
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The Agamemnon of Æschylus, tr. [and] illustr. by a diss. on Grecian tragedy, by J.S. Harford
Aeschylus
1831
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The Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides of Aeschyles, tr. into Engl. verse by A. Swanwick
Aeschylus
1865
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The Ainu of Japan: The Religion, Superstitions, and General History of the Hairy Aborigines of Japan
John Batchelor
1892
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The Alcestis and Hippolytus of Euripides, literally tr., to which are added, critical notes, by
Euripides
1846
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The Andrian, Heautontimoreumenos, and Hecyra of Terence, tr. literally, by J.A. Phillips
Publius Terentius
1836
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The Arguments of the Emporor Julian Against the Christians: Translated from the Greek Fragments
Julian Willis Nevins
1873
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The Arian Witness, Or, The Testimony of Arian Scriptures: In Corroboration
Krishna Mohan Banerjea
1875
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The Athanasian Creed, Extracted from the Apocalypse: Or, Book of Revelations
Emanuel Swedenborg
1828