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 Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3)
James George Frazer
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The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 2 (of 3)
James George Frazer
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The Book of Gud
Milo Hastings, Harold Hersey
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The Breath of the Gods
Sidney McCall
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The Bridge of the Gods
Frederic Homer Balch
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The Edda, Volume 1
Lucy Winifred Faraday
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The Edda, Volume 2
Lucy Winifred Faraday
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The Epic of Hades, in Three Books
Lewis Morris
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The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
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The False Gods
George Horace Lorimer
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The Flute of the Gods
Marah Ellis Ryan, Edward S Curtis
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The Food of the Gods
Brandon Head
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The Gods
Robert Green Ingersoll
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The Gods and Mr. Perrin: A Tragi-Comedy
Hugh Walpole
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The Gods of the North: an epic poem
Adam Oehlenschläger, William Edward Frye
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The Homeric Hymns
Andrew Lang
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The Little Gods: A Masque of the Far East
Rowland Thomas, Charles Charles Nicholas Sarka
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The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry
William George Archer
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The Man the Sun-Gods Made
Gardner Gardner Francis Fox, Rube Moore
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The Medicine-Men of the Apache. (1892 N 09 / 1887-1888 (pages 443-604))
John Gregory Bourke
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The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa
Walter James Hoffman
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The Money Gods
Ellery Ellery Harding Clark
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The Mortal Gods, and Other Plays
Olive Tilford Dargan
Date unknown
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The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions
Carveth Read
Date unknown