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 Osage tribe, two versions of the child-naming rite
Francis La Flesche
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The Pagan Tribes of Borneo
Charles Hose, William McDougall, Alfred Alfred Cort Haddon
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The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2)
William Crooke
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The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 2 (of 2)
William Crooke
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The Princess and the Physicist
Evelyn E Smith, Sandy Kossin
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The Religion of Ancient Rome
Cyril Bailey
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The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Theophilus Theophilus Goldridge Pinches
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The Religion of Numa
Jesse Benedict Carter
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The Sex Life of the Gods
Michael E. Knerr
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The Shadow-Gods
Bill Garson, Henry William Kiemle
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The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
0 CE
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The Way of the Gods
John Luther Long
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The evolution of religion
Lewis Richard Farnell
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The feather symbol in ancient Hopi designs
Jesse Walter Fewkes
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The fetish folk of West Africa
Robert H Milligan
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The gallery gods
Murray Leinster
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The legend of Perseus, Volume 1 (of 3)
Edwin Sidney Hartland
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The legend of Perseus, Volume 2 (of 3)
Edwin Sidney Hartland
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The legend of Perseus, Volume 3 (of 3)
Edwin Sidney Hartland
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The peyote cult
Weston La Barre
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The ritual and significance of the Winnebago medicine dance
Paul Radin
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The six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on the theology of Plato (vol. 1 of 2)
Proclus, Thomas Taylor
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The six books of Proclus, the Platonic successor, on the theology of Plato (vol. 2 of 2)
Proclus, Thomas Taylor
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Thomas Paine
Robert Green Ingersoll
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