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
Essay on the subject of the restoration of the diaconate
J. H. Nicolls
1863
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Evidence as to man's place in nature
Thomas Henry Huxley
1863
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Evidences of the glories of the one divine intelligence as seen in His works
Thomas Hurlburt
1867
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Examination of the principles of the Scoto-Oxonian philosophy
M. P. W. Bolton
1861
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Extraordinary events the doings of God, and marvellous in pious eyes
Thomas Prince
1745
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Faith and its effects, or, Fragments from my portfolio
Phoebe Palmer
1850
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Feeding animals
Elliott W. Stewart
1883
- Read free
Feeds and feeding
Henry Thompson, W. A. Henry, Frank Barron Morrison
1879
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Flood, field and forest
George Rooper
1869
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For Pity's Sake
Sarah Nelson Carter
1897Armenian
- Read free
Forty years' residence in America
Grant Thorburn
1834
- Read free
Fresh-water rhizopods of North America
Joseph Leidy
1879
- Read free
Fundamentals or Bases of belief concerning man, God, and the correlation of God and men
Thomas Griffith
1871
- Read free
Fur-bearing animals
Elliott Coues
1877
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Fur-bearing animals in nature and in commerce
Henry Poland
1892
- Read free
Fur-seal and the seal islands
Sheldon Jackson
1891
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Fur-seal fisheries of Alaska
Vincent Colyer
1870
- Read free
General Zoology or Systematic Natural History
George Shaw
1800
- Read free
Genesis and its authorship
John Quarry
1873
- Read free
Gil Blas en Californie
Alexandre Dumas
1852
- Read free
God
Henri-Dominique Lacordaire
1870
- Read free
God in his Providence
Woodbury M. Fernald
1859
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God in his world
Henry Mills Alden
1890
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God in history, or, The progress of man's faith in the moral order of the world
Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen
1868