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
The Hindu pantheon
Edward Moor
1810
The History and Theory of Fetishism
Alfonso Maurizio Iacono
2016
The Importance of animal experimentation for safety and biomedical research
Silvio Garattini, D. W. van Bekkum
1899
- Read free
The Jolly fisherman
McLoughlin Bros
1896
The Killing Moon
N. K. Jemisin
2012
The Lancashire Witches
Robert Poole
2002
- Read free
The Little scrap book
Sidney Babcock
1850
The Loney
Andrew Michael Hurley
2014
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
1983
The Lottery, or The Adventures of James Harris
Shirley Jackson
1949
The Mithraic origin and meanings of the rotas-sator square
Walter O. Moeller
1973
The Mythic Forest, the Green Man And the Spirit of Nature
Gary R. Varner
2006
The Neoplatonic Socrates
Harold Tarrant
2014
The Pantheon
François Pomey
1694
The Plague Dogs
Richard Adams
1981
The Pleasures of God
John Piper
1992
The Practice of Ritual Magic
Gareth Knight
1969
The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire
Roger Beck
2006
The Returns of Fetishism
Charles de Brosses, Rosalind C. Morris, Daniel H. Leonard
2017
- Read free
The Robins, Or, Fabulous Histories: Or, Fabulous Histories, Designed for the Instruction of ...
Sarah Trimmer
1822
The Routledge handbook of Greek mythology
Robin Hard
2003
The Secret History of Western Sexual Mysticism
Arthur Versluis
2008
- Read free
The Show of animals
American Sunday-School Union
1840
The Significance of Neoplatonism
R. Baine Harris
1976