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
Mind In The Lower Animals In Health And Disease
William Lauder Lindsay
1879
- Read free
Misal diario y vesperal
Catholic Church
1806
- Read free
Mishneh Torah (Codification of Talmudic laws)
Moses Maimonides
1470
- Read free
Mithraism
W. J. Phythian-Adams, William John Telia Phythian Phythian-Adams
1915
- Read free
More kindred of the wild
Charles G. D. Roberts
1890
- Read free
Movement
Étienne-Jules Marey
1895
- Read free
My literary zoo
Kate Sanborn
1896
- Read free
Natural theology
Bernard Boedder
1891
- Read free
Natural theology
John Bascom
1880
- Read free
Nature in Scripture
E. C Cummings
1885
- Read free
Nomenclator zoologicus
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
1882
- Read free
Notes on Eskimo traditions
Harlan Ingersoll Smith
1894
- Read free
Notes on the Unionidae found in the vicinity of Ottawa, Ont
F. R. Latchford
1882
- Read free
Notes on the rubrics of the Roman ritual
James O'Kane
1868
- Read free
Nouvelle méchanique des mouvements de l'homme et des animaux
P.-J Barthez, Julian Hawthorne
1798French
- Read free
O-kee-pa
George Catlin
1867
- Read free
Observations On The Influence Of Religion Upon The Health And Physical Welfare Of Mankind
Amariah Brigham
1835
- Read free
Ocean life
James M. Sommerville
1859
- Read free
Octavius
Marcus Minucius Felix
1631
- Read free
Officers of the Toronto Humane Society 1887-8
Toronto Humane Society
1888
- Read free
Old Testament canon and philology
William Henry Green
1878
- Read free
On horse-breaking
Robert Moreton
1877
- Read free
On the breeding of horses and other domesticated animals in Canada
H. Quetton St. George
1891
- Read free
On the divine images
Laurence Gardner
1898