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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A Compendious and Complete Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament ...
Benjamin Davies, Edward Cushing Mitchell
1890
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A Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel
Franklin Dewey Richards, James Amasy Little
1884
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A Directorie Teaching the Way to the Truth in a Briefe and Plaine Discourse Against the Heresies of this Time. Where Vnto is Added, a Short Treatise Against Adiaphorists, Neuters, and Such as Say They May be Saued in Any Sect Or Religion, and Would Make of Many Diuers Sects One Church
John Radford
1605
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A Handbook of Greek Mythology
H. J. Rose
1928
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A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns: For Private, Family, and Public Worship ...
John Dobell, Isaac Watts
1815
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A Treatise On The Divine Sovereignty
A. M. Robert Wilson
1826
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A brief and popular history of the Hospital of God's House, Southampton
John Aston Whitlock
1894
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A catalogue of the animals of North America
Johann Reinhold Forster
1771
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A dissertation on the eternal sonship of Christ
James Kidd
1822
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A dissertation on the theology of the Chinese
Walter Henry Medhurst
1847
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A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue
Rasmus Rask
1843
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A hand-book of the management of animals in captivity in Lower Bengal
Ram Bramha Sanyal
1892
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A letter from the Lord Bishop of London
Thomas Sherlock
1750
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A manual of veterinary physiology
Frederick Smith, F. Sir Smith
1892
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A memoir on the echinodermata of the Arctic Sea to the west of Greenland
P. Martin Duncan
1881
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A natural history of British and foreign quadrupeds
James Hamilton Fennell
1841
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A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast
Philip Henry Gosse
1853
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A petition and prayer in behalf of the lower animals
Archibald McBean
1891
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A refutation of Col. R.G. Ingersoll's lectures
Rationalist
1880
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A sermon preached at Quebec, on Thursday, January 10th, 1799
Jacob Mountain
1799
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A sermon preached at the anniversary of the Royal Humane Society
Jacob Mountain
1819
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A sermon preached in Trinity Church, Saint John, March 4, 1849, by the Rev. I.W.D. Gray, D.D., Rector of the parish
J. W. D. Gray
1849
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A sermon preached in the cathedral church of Quebec, on Sunday, the 12th September, 1819
George J. Mountain
1819
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A short history of natural science and of the progress of discovery
Arabella B. Buckley
1876