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
Tu teng wen hua yu ren lei zhu wen hua di qi yuan
Xingliang He
1991CMN
Umbanda
J. Edson Orphanake
1993Portuguese
Umi yama kawa
Shintō Bunkakai
2009Japanese
Vosstanovlenie modernizma
A. I︠A︡kimovich
2001Russian
Was fehlt uns?, oder, Die biblische Lehre von dem auf Erden kommenden Reiche Gottes
L. Reinhardt
1874German
Weltschöpfung, Sintfluth und Gott
Arthur Stentzel
1894German
Xian nong chong bai yan jiu
Shaopeng Dong
2016Chinese
Xin ding san li tu
Chongyi Nie
1800Chinese
Zhong Guo de zi ran chong bai
Ming San Fan
1994Chinese
Zhong Ri zu xian chong bai yan jiu
Jie Zhou
2004Chinese
Zhongguo ji zu wen ti
Fuzeng Xing
2002Chinese
Zhongguo shang gu tu teng zhi du tan ze
Changpu Bi
1979Chinese
Zhongguo tu teng wen hua
Xingliang He
1992Chinese
Zhongguo zi ran shen yu zi ran chong bai
Xingliang He
1992Chinese
Zhuang zu tu teng kao
Zhensheng Qiu
1996CMN
Zoologie Morale
Eugène Mouton
1882French
Zu zong di shen ling
Xiangping Li
1989Chinese
Über vorhellenische Götterculte
Wolfgang Reichel
1897German
על המיסטריות
Andocides
2008Hebrew
آیین مهرپرستی بن مایه ادیان
پارسازاده، عبدالعلی
2014Persian
曉齋樂畫
Gyōsai Kawanabe
1881Japanese
神理療養強健術
Shōkaku Karasawa
2000Japanese
"A great man fallen in Israel"
C. Huntington
1881
"All things are yours"
Joseph Estlin Carpenter
1888