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
Country cousins
Ernest Ingersoll
1884
- Read free
Cousin Trix and her welcome tales
Georgiana M. Craik
1868
Crafting the art of magic
Aidan A. Kelly
1991
Creation and salvation in ancient orphism
Larry J. Alderink
1981
Crooked Little Vein
Warren Ellis
2007
Cult of the Dead Cow
Joseph Menn
2019
Cults Inside Out
Rick Ross
2014
Cults and New Religions
Douglas E. Cowan, David G. Bromley
2007
Cults!
Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenburg, Frank Harris - undifferentiated, Leonard Kip, Edwin L. Sabin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Cornell Woolrich, Edward D. Hoch, Kit Reed, Donald Franson, Stephen King, John Varley, William F. Temple, Katherine MacLean, Martin H. Greenberg
1983
Dark Green Religion
Bron Taylor, Bron Raymond Taylor
2009
De abstinentia
Porphyry
1655French
De vita Pythagorica
Iamblichus, L. Deubner, U. Klein
1707Ancient Greek
Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt
Salima Ikram
2002
Demons and spirits in biblical theology
J. Harvey Walton
2019
- Read free
Denise and Ned Toodles
Gabrielle E. Jackson
1898
Desperate voyage
John Caldwell
1949
Deviant desires
Katharine Gates
1999
Dharmasindhu
Kāśīnātha Upādhyāya
1907
Dictionary of Celtic mythology
Peter Berresford Ellis
1992
Dionysus
Walter Friedrich Gustav Hermann Otto
1965
Disappearance of Rituals
Byung-Chul Han
2020
Discovering your spirit animal
Lucy Harmer
2009
Divining with Achi and Tārā
Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, Solvej Hyveled Nielsen
2019
- Read free
Donald Fraser
Peter Carter
1867