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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De sirona dea [microform]
Friedrich Christian Matthiae
1806Latin
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Essai sur la religion romaine [microform] et sur les rapports de l'état romain avec quelques religions étrangères
Georges Sérullaz
1889French
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I Misteri Eleusini
Secondo Bernocco
1880Italian
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Lobeckii dissertationis de diis veterum adspectu corporum exanimium non prohibitis iterum editae pars altera [microform]
Chr. August Lobeck
1866Latin
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Myths & Legends of Ancient Greece & Rome (1880)
Brother Elias
1880
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Nelle solenni esequie dell'e[minentissi]mo, e rev[erendissi]mo Sig. cardinale Giuseppe Pozzobonelli, arcivescovo di Milano, gran croce del Real Ordine di Santo Stefano re d'Ungheria, celebrate il dì XVI. giugno MDCCLXXXIII. nella Chiesa Collegiata, e Parrocchiale di S. Giorgio al Palazzo
Giuseppe Galeazzi, Giuseppe Zanoja
1783Italian
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Ornamental statuary depicting animals and deities along the steps ascending up the Pyramid of the Sun at the Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico)
Mary Binney Wheeler
1982
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[Theotes kai theia dioikesis en schesei pros ten anthropinen ethiken par Aischylo] [microform]
Nikolaos D Pemas
1889Greek
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Über Aufnahme griechischer Gottheiten in den römischen Kultus [microform]
Jakob Mörschbacher
1882German
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Über Ursprung und erste Bedeutung der griechischen und römischen Hauptgottheiten [microform]
Richter
1840German
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill
1797
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Esequie dell' Altezza Reale la serenissima donna Isabella di Borbone, infanta di Spagna, arciduchessa d'Austria
Giulio Rucellai, Stamperia imperiale
1764Italian
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Life in Ancient Egypt & Assyria (1892)
Brother Elias
1892
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Orazione funebre detta nella Chiesa dei MM. RR. PP. dell'oratorio di S. Filippo Neri di Cortona da Tommaso Coltellini, in occasione delle solenni esequie celebrate dal popolo di detta città al Cavaliere marchese Giuseppe Benvenuto de'Venuti, la mattina del di 27. Aprile 1780
Tommaso Coltellini
1780Italian
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Trinvm magicvm, siue secretorvm magicorvm opus: continens, I. De magia naturali, artificiosa et superstitiosa disquisitiones axiomaticas (M.A. Zimarae tractatus magicus) II. Theatrum naturae, praeter curam magneticam, et veterum sophorum sigilla et imagines magicas, etiam conclusiones physicas ... exhibens. (De magnetica curatione vulnerum ... authore R[odolpho] G[oclenio] M.D.) III. Oracula Zoroastris et mysteria mysticae philosophiae, Hebraeorum, Chaldaeorum, Aegyptiorum ... (Logia, sive oracula Zoroastri ex Plantonicorum librorum collecta.) Accessere nonnulla secreta secretorum, & mirabilia mundi. Et tractatus de proprii cuiusque nati daemonis inquisitione
Magnus Albertus
1629Latin
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A Series of Lecture Sermons: Delivered at the Second Universalist Meeting, in Boston
Hosea Ballou, Second Society of Universalists (Boston, Mass.)
1840
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A Tribute of Affection to the Memory of Rev. Samuel B. Swaim
[name Missing]
1866
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Berashith; or, The first book of Moses, call'd Genesis, tr. by J. Lookup
1740
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De funere publico Romanorum
Friedrich Vollmer
1892Italian
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De idololatria liber
Moses Maimonides
1641Hebrew
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Les divinités égyptiennes
G. M Beauregard-Ollivier
1866French
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The General History Of Polybius (1823)
Brother Elias
1823
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The variation of animals and plants under domestication
Charles Darwin
1868
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Ancient Sicily (1890)
Brother Elias
1890