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 vindication of the justice and mercy of God in appointing death for all men
Almon Abel
1814
A vindication of the rights of brutes
Thomas Taylor
1795
A vision, or The apparition of an angel, to a hermit
Thomas Parnell
1762
A visit to Nahant
Lady
1847
A visit to Nahant, being a sequel to the Wonders of the deep
Lady
1839
A voice from antiquity to the men of the nineteenth century, or, Read the book
J. H. Merle d'Aubigné
1844
A voice from heaven
Thomas Lake Harris
1879
A voice of the first trumpet
R. F
1653
A warning for swearers
J. C
1677
A wonderful instance of God's appearance for, and presence with his people in a day of suffering, or, A narrative of the most holy life, and triumphant death of Mr. Fulcran Rey
Friend
1688
A word in season to this present generation, or, A sober and serious discourse about the favorable, signal and eminent presence of the Lord with his people
Thomas Brooks
1675
Absorption of exudations under the influence of massage
Arvid Kellgren
1897
Account of a new animal, which occurred in such quantities as to dye red the Lake of Morat in the Spring of 1825
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
1827
Account of an extraordinary marine animal or sea serpent
I. Harwood
1828
Account of the Island of Foula
Vetch Captain
1850
Account of the circumstances connected with the discovery of the fossil elk in the Isle of Man
Samuel Hibbert
1825
Adams garden
Thomas Savile
1611
Additional facts, observations, and conjectures relative to the generation of the opossum of North-America
Benjamin Smith Barton
1813
Additional observations on the intimate structure of bone
John Quekett
1849
Additional testimony respecting the sea-serpent of the American seas
William Jackson Sir Hooker
1827
Address to mothers
Mother
1817
Address to the United Presbyterian congregation, Grange lane, Birkenhead
James Towers
1861
Addresses to the Deity
James Fordyce
1785
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Thomas Saquin
1743