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
Copy of an act of Parliament for preventing clandestine marriages
Christopher Robinson, Joseph Phillimore, Great Britain
1822
Cornstalk disease and rabies in cattle
Veranus Alva Moore, D. E Salmon
1896
Correspondence (second year) between the secretaries of the Friends of Spiritual Enlightenment and the Anglo-Continental Society
A. A. Kiri︠e︡ev
1875
Costliness of God's moral government
Henry W. Bellows, N.Y.) Unitarian Church of All Souls (New York
1871
Cottage economy
William Cobbett
1822
Creeds of the day, or Collated opinions of reputable thinkers
Henry Coke
1883
Cremation and urn-burial
W. Robinson
1889
Cruelty to animals
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
1887
Cultivation of personal magnetism
Leroy Berrier
1899
Curiosities and remarkable customs in pagan and Mohammedan countries
Caleb Wright
1848
Curiosities of popular customs
William Shepard Walsh
1898
D. Ioannis Chrysostomi de prouidentia Dei ac fato
John Chrysostom
1545
Dadd's chart of veterinary reformed practice : being a condensed synopsis of the diseases of horses, cattle and sheep; with their cause, symptoms, and treatment
George H. Dadd
1848
Danger announced and deliverance sought from God ; or the conduct of Jehoshaphat and his people, exemplified in Britain and her King
George Lambert
1803
Dao jiao shen xian hua ji
Jiyu Zhang, 继禹 张
1995Chinese
Darwin on God
G. W. Foote
1889
Day of Judgment
Archibald Alexander
1825
Day of judgment
American Tract Society
1800
Day-fatality, or, Some observations of days lucky and unlucky
John Gibbon
1686
De Ludis Eleusiniis
Abraham Rutgers van der Loeff
1845
De ascensione mentis in Deum per scalas rerum creatorum opusculum
Roberto Francesco Romolo Saint Bellarmino
1638
De immensa Dei misericordia
Desiderius Erasmus
1524
Death in medieval Europe
Joëlle Rollo-Koster
2017
Deceivers made manifest
James Bowers
1805