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
Bureau of Animal Industry
D. E Salmon
1898
Bureau of Animal Industry, etc
Phone Number List | Databases List
1896
Bureau of Animal Industry. Letter of the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting the report of the operations of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the year 1889
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
1890
Burials in national cemeteries
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs
1896
Bury Natural History Society
Bury Natural History Society
1872
By-laws of the Alaska Commercial Company
Alaska Commercial Company
1870
Calamities not judgements, or, An appeal to reason and conscience against the cruel interpretation of the mysteries of providence, put forth by the Church of England, in the form of prayer for relief from the present dearth and scarcity
Edward Higginson
1846
Can religion dispense with God? and Will culture outgrow Christianity?
Charles Barnes Upton
1886
Can the Christian Church supply the wants of the Chinese with regard to their reverence for ancestors?
P. Krantz
1904
Care, rearing, and medical treatment of domestic animals
Lucius H. Colby
1875
Cat and bird stories from the "Spectator"
John St. Loe Strachey
1896
Catalogue of animals and birds in the Shanghai Museum /[by] W.B. Pryer
W. B. Pryer
1876
Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum
British Museum
1866
Catalogue of skulls of man and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton ..
Samuel George Morton
1840
Catalogue of the collection to illustrate the animal resources and the fisheries of the United States
G. Brown Goode
1879
Catechism on the foundations of the Christian faith
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
1811
Catechism on the foundations of the Christian faith
Catholic Church
1810
Catholick religion: or, The just test or character of every person that in any nation is accepted with God
William Manning
1686
Causa Dei contra novatores, or, God ever present with his people, God ever propitious to his people
Hopton Haynes
1747
Causa Dei: = Gods pleading his own cause
John Gauden
1661
Cautions and reflections on canine madness
George Lipscomb
1807
Cavsa dei, or, An apology for God
Richard Burthogge
1675
Cecil's book of beasts
Selim H Peabody
1868
Ceremonial and offices connected with the burial of the dead
W. Sancroft Randall
1890