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
Gods in the world
Aftab S. Jassal
2024
Gods of the Blood
Mattias Gardell
2003
Gods, ghosts, and ancestors
David K Jordan
1970
Golden Fool (The Tawny Man, Book 2)
Robin Hobb
2002
Government is of God
Thomas Laurie
1861
- Read free
Grand illustrated encyclopedia of animated nature
John Frost
1855
- Read free
Grandmamma's book of rhymes for the nursery
Amelia C. Heyeman
1844
Great Russian Animal Tales
Adolph Gerber
1891
Great Short Stories of the World
Isak Dinesen, Sholem Aleichem, Aldous Huxley, Irwin Shaw, Reader's Digest Association, Truman Capote, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, Nigel Balchin, William Somerset Maugham, Santha Rama Rau, Albert Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Anatole France, Антон Павлович Чехов, Nadine Gordimer, Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, Frank O'Connor, Katherine Mansfield, Corrado Alvaro, Sally Benson, John Updike, Damon Runyon, Pearl S. Buck, Jessamyn West, Shirley Jackson, Alberto Moravia, H. G. Wells, Lilika Nakos, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassat, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Rabindranath Tagore, Rumer Godden, Hernando Tellez, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Benchley, John O'Hara, S. J. Perelman, Machado de Assis, Jean Stafford, Max Aub, Gabrielle Roy, James Thurber, Leo Kennedy, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Montague Rhodes James, Максим Горький, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes, Josh Gregory, Doris Lessing, Saki, Wallace Stegner, Marcel Aymé, Colette, Ring Lardner, Paul Horgan, Thomas Head Raddall, O. Henry, Luigi Pirandello, Eudora Welty, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Hjalmar Söderberg, Henry Lawson
1972
Greek myths and Christian mystery
Hugo Rahner
1963
Grimoire of Aleister Crowley
Rodney Orpheus, Aleister Crowley, John Dee et al
2019
Guide to Britain's Pagan Heritage
David Clarke
1995
Handbook of the Indians of California
A. L. Kroeber
1900
- Read free
Happy because good
Catherine Parr Traill
1854
- Read free
Happy little Edward
Sidney Babcock
1850
Hearing God
Dallas Willard
1999
Heaven's Gate
Bill Hoffmann, Cathy Burke
1997
Hedge witch
Rae Beth
1990
Hekate Liminal Rites
Sorita D'este
2009
- Read free
Henry and Emma's visit to the zoological gardens, in the Regent's Park
J. Bishop
1835
Her Soul to Take
Harley Laroux
2021
Heroes
Stephen Fry
2018
- Read free
History of domestic animals
William Howland
1835
- Read free
Holiday tales, translated from the German
W. T. Norman
1853