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
Contemporary religious Satanism
Jesper Aagaard Petersen
2008
Copper in animal wastes and sewage sludge
J. Dehandtschutter
1899
Corpus inscriptionum et monumentorum religionis Mithriacae
Maarten Jozef Vermaseren
1956Latin
Creature totems
Twylah Hurd Nitsch
1991
Creed and confession in South African ancestor religion
W. D. Hammond-Tooke
1994
Description and Explanation of Anunnaki, Babylonian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Phoenician Slabs, Seals, Inscriptions, Statues, Tablets and Secret Symbols. 4th Edition
Maximillien De Lafayette
2010
Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and His works in creation, providence, and grace
Adam Clarke
1830
Discussion on the existence of God and the authenticity of the Bible
Origen Bacheler
1832
Dream
Alexander O. Sign
2013
Early Philosophical Shiism
Paul E. Walker
2008
Earth Spirit
John Mitchell
1976
Encyclopedia of Classical Mystery Religions
P. N. Hunt
1992
European Paganism
Ken Dowden
1999
FANTASIES OF FETISHISM: FROM DECADENCE TO THE POST-HUMAN
AMANDA FERNBACH
2002
Fetish
Massimo Fusillo
2017
Fetish and You
Jackie A. Castro MA LMFT
2015
Foot Fetish
Timothy Mark
2015
Foundations of faith
Bob Duggan
2000
Genealogy of the South-Indian gods
Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg
1869
Genetic-speculative philosophy of religion
Otto Pfleiderer
1888
Gilgamesh 10
Marshall Klarfeld
2011
God
Randolph S. Foster
1897
God is love
Nehemiah Adams
1858
God is love
G. E. Fifield
1897