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
Ebb and Flo and the Baby Seal
Jane Simmons
2000
How the camel got his hump
Rudyard Kipling
1898
Room on the Broom
Julia Donaldson
2001
Animals on the Go
Jessica Brett
2000
Dear Zoo
Rod Campbell, Roger Boore, Caroline Quentin
1982
Good Night Gorilla
Peggy Rathmann, Ma. Francisca Mayobre
1994
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
Rick Riordan
2006
The optimist's daughter
Eudora Welty
1972
Three Little Pigs
Steven Kellogg
1997
Totem poles
Jennifer Frantz, Chi Chung
2001
Are You My Mother?
P. D. Eastman
1960
Camp Half-Blood Confidential
Rick Riordan
2017
Sammy the Seal
Syd Hoff
1959
The Sea of Monsters
Rick Riordan
2005
The Ship of the Dead
Rick Riordan
2017
The Tyrant's Tomb
Rick Riordan
2019
Wringer
Jerry Spinelli
1997
Z. D. Chodakowski About Slavs Before Independence and W. Surowiecki The sentence about the writing témże with the addition of brief news about Chodakowski and his correspondence
Adam Czarnocki, Wawrzyniec J Surowiecki
1835Polish
Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type
Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin
1900
If I Ran the Zoo
Seuss
1950
Put me in the zoo
Robert Lopshire
1960
Secret of the Andes
Ann Nolan Clark, Jean Charlot
1875
The Blood of Olympus
Rick Riordan
2001
- Read free
'Life's mystery'
William Thomas Thornton
1873