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
Animalivm, ferarvm, & bestiarvm, florvm, frvctvvm, muscarum, vermiumq
Wenceslaus Hollar
1674
Animals and plants under domestication
Charles Darwin
1875
Animals drawn from nature and engraved in aqua-tinta
Charles Catton
1788
Animals from the sketch-book of Harrison Weir
Harrison Weir
1851
Animals in ornament
G. Sturm
1895
Animals of to-day
C. J. Cornish
1898
Anno duodecimo & decimo tertio Victoriae Reginae : CAP XCII, an act for the more effectual prevention of cruelty to animals. [1st August 1849]
Rand McNally
1849
Anno primo Victoriae Reginae : CAP LXVI, an act to extend to Ireland the act of the fifth and sixth years of His late Majesty's Reign consolidating and amending the laws relating to the cruel and improper treatment of animals. [1837]
Rand McNally
1837
Anno quinto & sexto Gulielmi IV Regis : CAP LIX, an act to consolidate and amend the several laws relating to the cruel and improper treatment of animals ... mischiefs ... from the driving of cattle ... make other provisions in regard
Rand McNally
1835
Anno regni Caroli II. regis. Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, tricesimo secundo
England and Wales. Parliament
1681
Annual report ... on the contagious diseases, inspection & transit of animals for the year 1888 with an appendix ...
Great Britain. Privy Council Office. Agricultural Department
1889
Antiquities and curiostities of the church.
William Andrews
1897
Anwick his meditations vpon Gods monarchie and the deuill his kingdome
I. Anwick
1587
Apostolici, or, The history of the lives, acts, death, and martyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded the apostles
William Cave
1682
Appearance as an aid to protection. (Mimicry.)
Charles Herbert Hurst
1890
Apprehensions and hopes, excited by the recent revolution in France
John James Tayler
1848
Aristophanes' Birds, Frogs, and Clouds
Aristophanes
1899
Art of training animals
W. H. Burroughs
1869
Art of training animals
N.Y.) Jesse Haney & Co. (New York
1869
As your father in heaven
G. Hamilton Vance, Ireland) Stephen's Green Church (Dublin, Irish Unitarian Christian Society
1898
Asian ritual systems
Pamela J. Stewart
2007
Asking amiss and not receiving
Enoch Hale, Seth Noble, Vinson Gould, Payson Williston
1804
Astôdân, or a Persian coffin said to be 3,000 years old ; and, Recorded instances of children having been nourished by wolves and birds of prey
Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
1889
Atheomastix
Martin Fotherby
1622