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
Elohim
Hellmuth Zimmermann
1899German
Epekeina tou henos
Valerio Napoli
2008Italian
Etude sur le monothéisme des Hébreux
H. Vuilleumier
1864French
Europäisches Hoff-Ceremoniel
Gottfried Stieve
1715German
Fetiche
Boris Izaguirre
2003Spanish
Fetishizumu-ron no keifu to tenbō
Masakazu Tanaka
2009Japanese
Fornnordisk religionsforskning mellan teori och empiri
Andreas Nordberg
2013Swedish
Freundschaft Im Neuplatonismus
Michael Schramm
2013German
Gen Nihon no seishin fūdo
Nobuhiro Kubota
2008Japanese
Gott ..
Johann Gottfried Herder
1787German
Gottes Offenbarung durch heilige Geschichte
Hermann Freiherr von der Goltz
1868German
Guds uforanderlighed
Søren Kierkegaard
1855Danish
Handbuch der deutschen Mythologie
Karl Joseph Simrock
1887German
Heidenthum und Offenbarung
Engelbert Lorenz Fischer
1878German
Histoire de la sépulture et des funérailles dans l'ancienne Egypte
E. Amélineau
1896French
Histoires naturelles
Jules Renard
1896French
História da Umbanda
Alexandre Cumino
2010Portuguese
Houtudimu xin yang yan jiu
Dengfu Xiao
2015Chinese
Huang chao li qi tu shi
Yunlu
1759Chinese
I libri sublimi dell'iniziazione
Hermes Trismegistus
1988Italian
I misteri di Eleusi
Edoardo Tinto
2017Italian
Il divino tra unità e molteplicità
Michele Abbate
2008Italian
Indogermanische Naturreligion
Paul Asmus
1875German
Iniciação à Umbanda
Diamantino Fernandes Trindade
1986Portuguese