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
Falcon feather & valkyrie sword
D. J. Conway
1995
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Familiar animals and their wild kindred
John Monteith
1887
Fantasies of Fetishism
Amanda Fernbach
2002
Fashion & fetishism
David Kunzle
1982
Female fetishism
Lorraine Gamman
1994
Fetishism
Anthony Shelton
1995
Fetishism and culture
Hartmut Böhme
2014
Fetishism as cultural discourse
Emily Apter
1993
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Finikin and his gold pippin
Clara de Chatelain
1852
- Read free
Flora's gala
Maria Flaxman, William Roscoe
1808
Footsucker
Geoff Nicholson
1995
Four seasons of mojo
Stephanie Rose Bird
2006
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Four-handed folk
Harriet Mann Miller
1896
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Fred Morris and his dogs
M. E. Miller
1873
Freemasonry of the ancient Egyptians
Manly Palmer Hall
1937
Friendly Fetish A Beginners Guide To Kink
Emily Dubberley
1960
Fundamentals of cell immoblilisation
Viktor Nedović
1899
Fundamentals of the Yorùbá religion (Òrìṣà worship)
Chief Fama
1993
Gartel
Laurence M. Gartel
2007
Generation Fetish
Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
2001
God
Francesca Stavrakopoulou
2021
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God is love, whoso receiveth one such little child in my name receiveth me
Edward Bouverie Pusey
1844
God is red
Vine Deloria, Vine Deloria Jr, Leslie Silko, George E. Tinker
1973
Godless Paganism
John Halstead
2016