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 Time Machine
H. G. Wells
1895
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Parables from nature
Margaret Gatty, Alfred Gatty, Daybreak Classics
1855
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Rationale divinorum officiorum
Guillaume Durand, Trismegistus Hermes, Gerrit Bos, Charles Burnett, Paolo Lucentini
1459
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Ella; or, Turning over a new leaf
William Simonds
1855
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Short Stories (Black Cat / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Mystery of Marie Roget / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter)
Edgar Allan Poe
1845
Ich und du
Martin Buber
1922
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Pomona's travels
Frank R. Stockton
1894
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Bracebridge Hall
Washington Irving
1800
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Histoires Extraordinaires (Balloon-Hoax / Descent into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Mesmeric Revelation / Metzengerstein / Morella / MS. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Purloined Letter / Tale of the Ragged Mountains / Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall)
Edgar Allan Poe
1857French
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Tom Sawyer Abroad
Mark Twain
1894
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A Voice from the East to the Young: In a Series of Letters to the Children of the Reformed
John Scudder
1856
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Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides
Robert Browning, Euripides Robert Browning
1871
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History of my pets
Grace Greenwood
1851
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The big otter
Robert Michael Ballantyne
1885
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Alexander the great, a dramatic poem
Aubrey De Vere
1874
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An exposition upon the first chapter of the second epistle of Peter
Stephen Denison
1622
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Aristophanes' Apology: Including a Transcript from Euripides, Being the Last Adventure of
Euripides Robert Browning
1875
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Aristophanes' apology: including a transcript from Euripides being the last
Euripides Robert Browning
1875
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Britain's remembrancer: (1628)
George Wither
1880
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The Bacchanals and Other Plays by Euripides
Euripides
1888
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The Nursery Alice
Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, E. Gertrude Thomson, Harcourt Amory
1889
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'T Recht gebruyck van des Heeren Heyligen Avontmael, soo voor als na de bedieninge: bestaende in meditatien, gebeden, ende danckseggingen, door C. Drelincourt, P. du Moulin, en verscheyden andere godt-geleerden. Item, De klachte van een swaermoedige ziele ... door S. Simonides. Als mede De nootsakelijckheyd des H. Avontmaels ... door G. Udemans. Noch is op nieuws hier by gevoegt De reyse na Beth-El, of het huys Godts
1683Dutch
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Rāmāyaṇam
Vālmīki, Sheldon I. Pollock, Mu Irāmacuvāmi, Robert P. Goldman, Rosalind Lefeber, Krishna Dharma, Ramesh Menon, C. Rajagopalachari, Romesh Chunder Dutt, Manmatha Nath Dutt, Anant Pai, S.K. Ratcliffe
1823
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The Enormous Crocodile
Roald Dahl
1978French