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
Pagan Portals - the Dagda
Morgan Daimler
2018
Pagan Priests
Mary Beard
1989
Path of Paganism
John Beckett
2017
Pearls of the faith, or, Islam's rosary
Edwin Arnold
1883
Philoponus : on Aristotle Categories 1-5 with Philoponus
Riin Sirkel, Martin Tweedale, John Harris, Daniel King
2014
Philosophy of theism
Borden Parker Bowne
1887
Plain sermons on the liturgy
J. W. R. Beck
1863
Planets for Pagans
Renna Shesso
2014
Playing well with others
Lee Harrington
2012
Porphyry
Porphyry, James Wilberding
2014
Premonition and Belief
Nyadioe N. Mokgatle
1978
Proclus
Radek Chlup
2012
Prophetic Imperialism; or, the Prophetic Entail of Imperial Power
Joseph L. Lord
1871
Ritual Process
Victor Turner, Roger D. Abrahams, Alfred Harris
1974
Robert Delaunay
Robert Delaunay
1957
Robert and Sonia Delaunay
Hajo Düchting
1994
Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism
Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Pauliina Remes
2014
Salmon Mysteries
Kim Antieau
2010
Select passages illustrating Neoplatonism
E. R. Dodds
1923
- Read free
Sir Bevis
Richard Jefferies
1899
Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay
2017
Sovereignty of God
George W. Northrup
1894
Specimens of Eozoon canadense and their geological and other relations
John William Dawson
1888
Tales the Totems Tell
Hugh Weatherby
1944