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

Awake
Natasha Preston
2015

Babette Cole's beastly birthday book
Babette Cole
1891

Begin Smart
Begin Smart Books
2008

Belly Up
Stuart Gibbs
2010

Book of household pets
1866

Brian Wildsmith's Farm Animals
Brian Wildsmith
2001

Carving a totem pole
Vicki Jensen
1996

Cat the cat, who is that?
Mo Willems
2010

Charlotte's Web
Jennifer Frantz
2006

Click, Clack, Peep
Doreen Cronin
1800

Clip-Clop
Nicola Smee
2006

Cool!
Michael Morpurgo
1703

Divine Madness (CHERUB #5)
Robert Muchamore
2006

Encounter
Jane Yolen
1989
Encyclopedia of Witchcraft
2006

Fables ancient and modern
William Godwin, M.J. Godwin & Co, M.J. Godwin, Alexander Anderson
1805

Fables of Aesop
Aesop
1859

Fabulous histories
Sarah Trimmer
1786

Greek myths
Deborah Lock
2008

Halt's Peril
John Flanagan
2009
Himation. Métaphores du vêtement dans l’Antiquité classique et tardive
Juliette Delalande, Barthélémy Enfrein, Misel Jabin, Dimitri Mézière, Pauline Rates, Floriane Sanfilippo
2024

How the rhinoceros got his skin
Rudyard Kipling
1898

I spy with my little eye
Edward Gibbs
2011

Introduction to a science of mythology
Carl Gustav Jung
1951