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
A sermon, preached before the First Congregational Society, on Thanksgiving day
George G. Ingersoll
1831
A sermon, preached in Greenwich, Connecticut, August 5, 1832
Joel Mann
1832
A sermon, preached in Lancaster ... on the anniversary of our national independence ... before the Washington Benevolent Societies of Lancaster and Guildhall ..
Joseph Willard
1812
A sermon, preached in Lancaster, New Hampshire on the anniversary of our national independence ..
Joseph Willard
1812
A sermon, preached in the Presbyterian Church of Edisto-Island, on the eleventh of March, 1812
Donald M'Leod
1812
A sermon, upon the being of God, and the mediation of Christ
Aaron Putnam
1798
A short account of a canonisation at St. Peter's, at Rome
J. Henniker Heaton
1882
A short account of a dreadful thunder storm in Goshen in Connecticut, and elsewhere
Consider Tiffany
1767
A short account of the act for the better prevention of cruelty to animals ..
Stephen Paget
1892
A short discovery of certain truths of God
John Story
1664
A short relation concerning a wonderful & surprizing dream which the author had on the eighteenth of September, in the year MDCCLXIX
Samuel Clarke
1807
A short relation of the river Nile, of its sourse and current
Jerónimo Lobo, Peter Sir Wyche
1673
A short report on certain of the fauna of Antigua
Harry Goodwin
1899
A short sketch of animal magnetism
Physician
1838
A short treatise on Divine prescience
John Phillips, S. Phillips
1798
A short view of the tenets of Tritheists, Sabellians, Trinitarians, Arians, and Socinians
David James
1780
A song of deliverance for the lasting remembrance of Gods wonderful works never to be forgotten
John Wilson
1680
A special treatise of Gods prouidence and of comforts against all kinde of crosses and calamities to be drawne from the same
Andreas Hyperius
1602
A speciall treatise of Gods prouidence and of comforts against all kinde of crosses and calamities to be drawne from the same
Andreas Hyperius
1588
A spurious fear of God
Jeremiah Eames Rankin
1861
A statement of the number of noxious animals destroyed in each town
Massachusetts. General Court. Senate
1838
A stock of divine knowledge, being a lively description of the divine nature, or, The divine essence, attributes, and Trinity particularly explaned [sic] and profitably applied
Richard Stock
1641
A study of the vertebrate fauna of the Hudson Highlands
Edgar Alexander Mearns
1898
A succinct account, of the rites, and ceremonies of the Jews
David Levi
1782