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
Jesu Lehre vom Reiche Gottes
Arthur Titius
1895German
Jidu tu yu ji zu
Bohe Huang
1996Chinese
- Read free
Kami
1998
Kodai jingi shinkō no seiritsu to henʼyō
Kōichirō Yabuta
2010Japanese
Kodai no ōken saishi to shizen
Kazuo Miyake
2008Japanese
Kraftmetaphysik und Mysterienkult im Neuplatonismus
Lutz Bergemann
2006German
Kumano sankai minzoku ko
Kanichi Nomoto
1990Japanese
L'évolution religieuse dans les diverses races humaines
Charles Jean Marie Letourneau
1898French
La voie du paysage
François-Edouard Denys
2000French
Le culte des ancêtres et le culte des morts chez les Arabes
Ignác Goldziher
1885French
Le culte des morts dans le Céleste empire et l'Annam comparé au culte des ancêtres dans l'antiquité occidentale
Albert Marie Aristide Boüinais, A. Bouinais
1893French
Le prêtre et le sorcier
André-Saturnin Morin
1872French
Les Ancêtres sont parmi nous
Roland Kaehr, Fabrizio Sabelli
1988French
Lettre à Monseigneur l'archevèque de Rheims, sur le droit de la liturgie
Prosper Guéranger
1843French
Lettres sur les animaux
Charles-Georges Le Roy
1781French
Li jing shi li
Tingkan Ling
1860Chinese
Malira Ndi Myambo Ya Achewa
A J Makumbi
1965NYA
- Read free
Mandan-Hidatsa Myths and Ceremonies
1938
Marc, Macke und Delaunay
Susanne Meyer-Büser, Volker Adolphs
2009German
Mashahid Ras Al-Husayn Alayhi Al-Salam
Said Hadi Saffar
1441Arabic
- Read free
Memorial Customs, Ancient and Modern
1907
Mithraismens miljer
Per Lerjeryd
2000Swedish
Mithras
Christian-Adolphe Wauters
1985Dutch
Mithras oder Christus
Hans Koepf
1987German