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
- Read free
A text-book of invertebrate morphology
J. Playfair McMurrich
1894
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A theodicy
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
1853
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A travers le Canada en compagnie de l'Association Britannique pour l'avancement des sciences, 1884
J. P. Sheldon
1884
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A treatise on divine union
Thomas Cogswell Upham
1851
- Read free
According to promise
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
1887
- Read free
Act of incorporation, constitution and by-laws, and the laws relative to "cruelty to animals"
New Brunswick Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
1881
- Read free
Advent
Mission Church of S. John Baptist
1800
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Aims and objects of the Toronto Humane Society
Toronto Humane Society
1888
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Air-breathers of the coal period
John William Dawson
1863
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Alaska and the reindeer
J. C. Cantwell
1893
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American natural history
John D. Godman
1826
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An appendix to a Practical essay on distortion of the legs and feet of children, &c. Containing sixty two cases that have been successfully treated in patients between the ages of two weeks and twenty-five years, &c. &c
Timothy Sheldrake
1806
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An elementary text-book of biology, comprising vegetable and animal morphology and physiology
J. R. Ainsworth Davis
1893
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An essay on pantheism
John Hunt
1866
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An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America
William Winterbotham
1796
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An introduction to the osteology of the mammalia
William Henry Flower
1870
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Ancestor-worship and Japanese law
Nobushige Hozumi, Hozumi
1901
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Animal and plant lore
Fanny Dickerson Bergen
1899
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Animal life as affected by the natural conditions of existence
C. Semper
1881
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Animal locomotion
Eadweard Muybridge, University of Pennsylvania
1887
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Animal plagues
George Fleming
1871
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Annual report of the Regents of the University on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, with catalogues of the same
State Cabinet of Natural History
1847
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Anomalies and curiosities of medicine
George M. Gould
1897
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Appendix to the case of the United States before the Tribunal of Arbitration to convene at Paris under the provisions of the treaty between the United States of America and Great Britain, concluded February 29, 1892
United States
1892