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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Aquatic microscopy for beginners
Alfred Cheatham Stokes
1896
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Arcana, or, The museum of natural history
George Perry, Richard E. Petit
1811
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Arguments of Celsus, Porphyry and the emperor Julian against the Christians; also extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, relating to the Jews. Together with an appendix containing the oration of Libanius in defence of the temples of the heathens, tr. by dr. Lardner
Celsus
1830
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Aryas, Semites and Jews
Lorenzo Burge
1889
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Astro-theology
William Derham
1715
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Attis
Gaius Valerius Catullus
1861
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Avian medicine
Branson W. Ritchie, Greg J. Harrison, Linda R. Harrison
1664
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Ballads and songs of Lancashire
John Harland, Thomas Turner Wilkinson
1865
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Belief in God
Jacob Gould Schurman
1890
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Belief in God, Its Origin, Nature, and Basis: Being the Winkley Lectures of ..
Jacob Gould Schurman
1890Chinese
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Bertrami presbyteri De corpore et sanguine Domini liber, ad carolum magnum imperatore, ante DCC annos aeditus
Ratramnus monk of Corbie, Ælfric of Eynsham, Jean Harduin, Jacques Boileau, Johannes Trithemius
1541
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Between heathenism and Christianity
Charles William Super
1899
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Can I believe in God the Father?
William Newton Clarke
1899
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Castorologia, or, The history and traditions of the Canadian beaver
Horace T. Martin
1892
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Ceremonies of a Lodge of Sorrow, held in commemoration of the dead, under the auspices of Gourgas Lodge of Perfection, 14°, in the Preceptory of the Rite, Freemasons' Hall, Pittsburgh on the evening of St. John the Evangelist's Day, Tuesday, December 27, 1892
Freemasons. Pittsburgh. Scottish Rite. Valley of Pittsburgh
1892
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Christian Iconography Or The History Of Christian Art In The Middle Ages V1
M. Didron
1891
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Christian theism
C. A. Row
1880
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Christianity and idealism
John Watson
1897
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Churchwardens' manual
Church of England. Diocese of Toronto
1886
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Circulaire
Église catholique. Diocèse de Québec. Évêque, Église catholique. Archidiocèse de Québec. Archevêque
1838
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Constitution and by-laws of the Victoria Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Victoria Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
1888
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Constitution and bye-laws with abstract of laws relative to " cruelty to animals"
Nova Scotia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
1877
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Contagious diseases of cattle
J. T. Duncan
1880
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Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Louis Agassiz
1857