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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Le solenni esequie de monsignor Filippo Visconti, arcivescovo di Milano
Luigi Cagnola
1802Italian
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Les Magnétiseurs, jugés par eux-mêmes
G. Mabru
1858French
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Missionary paper. No. 14
1838
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Begraeffenisse van Syne Hoogheyt Frederick Henrick, by der gratien Gods prince van Orange
Pieter Post
1651Dutch
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Beschreib vnnd Vorstellung dess Lust-Fewrwercks, welches Ihro Churfürstlichen Durchl. vnserm allerseyts genädigisten Chur vnd Lands-Fürsten Herrn Herrn Maximiliano Emanueli, &c. &c
Christoph Helle, Jäcklin, Johann
1685German
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Delle lodi della sacra cesarea maestà dell'augustissimo imperatore Francesco, duca di Lorena e di Bar, gran-duca di Toscana
Gaetano Cambiagi, Antonio Niccolini
1766Italian
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Relatione delle festiue dimostrationi fatte in Bologna nella creatione e coronatione della Santità di N. S. P. Clemente IX
Eredi di Domenico Barbieri, Francesco Nerli
1667Italian
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01 The Enemies Of The Church
1880
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Descrizione de' solenni funerali a S.M. Cattolica Maria Amalia Walburga, regina di Spagna
fl 1760 Orlando, Filippo Randazzo, Francesco Testa, fl. 1760 Trisca
1760Italian
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Pārāśarī, circa 1700-1850
Parāśara
1700Sanskrit
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Surmubelos
Wolf Wilhelm Grafen
1876
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Three hundred Aesop's fables
Aesop, 621? BCE-565? BCE Aesop, George Fyler Townsend
1867
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Cours de magnétisme animal en douze leçons
F. Millet
1858French
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Die Eleusinischen mysterien
Otto Haggenmacher
1880German
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Officium in festo omnium sanctorum
Catholic Church
1752Latin
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Histoire du culte des divinités d'Alexandrie. Sérapis, Isis, Harpocrate et Anubis, hors de l'Égypte depuis les origines jusqu'à la naissance, de l'école néo-platonicienne
Georges Lafaye
1884French
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History of Greece (George Grote)
Brother Elias
1840
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Le Tcheou-li; ou, Rites des Tcheou
Chow le
1851French
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Sciencia das religiões. Origens poeticas do christianismo
Braga, Teófilo
1880Portuguese
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The admiral's caravan
Charles E. Carryl, Charles Charles Edward Carryl, Reginald Reginald Bathurst Birch
1892
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Delle lodi di Lodovico Primo, infante di Spagna, primo re dell'Etruria &c. &c. &c
Carlo Lasinio, Francesco Sproni
1803Italian
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Description de la pompe funebre faite dans l'eglise de la Sainte Chapelle du roi à Dijon, le 13 décembre 1740, après la mort de tres-haut, tres-puissant, et tres-excellent prince, Louis-Henri duc de Bourbon, prince de Condé, prince du sang, pair et grand maitre de France, gouverneur de Bourgogne
Antoine de Fay, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Charles-Élie Le Jolivet
1741French
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Die Gottesdienstlichen Alterthümer Der Obotriten Aus Dem Tempel Zu Rhetra Am Tollenzer See
Andreas Gottlieb Masch
1771German
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Die kulte und mythen Arkadiens
Walter Immerwahr
1891German