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 God of the Jews, or, Jehovah unveiled, being the character of Jewish deity delineated, with strictures on the lives of Hebrew saints, and Remarks on the theocracy
William Skinner
1819
The Hindu rite of entry into heaven
David M. Knipe
2019
The Kingdom of God
James Evans
1882
The Kingdom of God, its constitution and progress
D. X. Junkin
1860
The Mandukyopanishat
Gurudatta Vidyārthi
1893
The Oriental cults in Roman Britain
Eve Harris
1965
The Seattle totem pole
Viola Edmundson Garfield
1940
The Shekinah, or, The present and manifestation of Jehovah
William Cooke
1877
The Zoological record
Zoological Society of London
1870
The beauty of holiness
Frederick George Lee
1869
The church and the kingdom
Washington Gladden
1894
The divine drama
Granville Ross Pike
1898
The ethological roots of culture
R. Allen Gardner
1899
The everlasting Gospel
Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, John Higginson, Samuel Willard, Nate Pickowicz
1700
The foreknowledge of God, or, The omniscience of God consistent with His own holiness and man's free agency
Joel S. Hayes
1890
The harmonics of Wicca
Keith Morgan
1989
The knowledge of Jesus the most excellent of the sciences
Alexander Carson
1851
The last times and the great consummation
Joseph Augustus Seiss
1864
The mysteries of Eleusis
Eugène comte Goblet d'Alviella
1981
The neoplatonic writings of Numenius
Numenius of Apamea, Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie
1986
The personality of the deity
Henry Ware
1838
The poll-parrot picture book
1871
The providence of God
Thomas Jackson
1866
The second part of a treatise concerning policy, and religion
Thomas Fitzherbert
1610