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
Exhortations to early piety, or, Motives and directions for young persons to be religious
Benjamin Wadsworth
1702
Experiments and observations on animal heat, and the inflamation of combustible bodies
Adair Crawford
1787
Experiments on life as fundamental to the science of preventive medicine and as of question between man and brute
John Sir Simon
1882
Experiments on the power that animals, when placed in certain circumstances, possess of producing cold
Adair Crawford
1781
Experiments on the production of animal heat by respiration
E. Hale
1813
Export trade in cattle
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
1894
Expressions of spiritual thought and feeling
William of Sunderland Mackean
1838
Extemporaneous sermons
Thomas Lake Harris
1879
Extract of sermon preach'd at the South church in Boston
Thomas Prince
1774
Fables
Johann Elias Ridinger
1851
Fables of Æsop and others: translated into English
E. Dyas
1789
Facts and fictions of zoology
Andrew Wilson
1882
Facts for farmers
Solon Robinson
1866
Fair Grounds and Zoological Garden, St. Louis
Jas Overton
1880
Fairies, demons and nature spirits
Michael Ostling
2018
Faith of Abraham and of Christ, his seed in the coming kingdom of God on earth, with the restitution of all things which God hath spoken ...
Henry Dana Ward
1872
Familiar instructions for the public worship of Almighty God
Protestant Episcopal Tract Society
1830
Feareful neuues of thunder and lightning
Jozef Felix
1606
Feareful neuues of thunder and lightning
P. S
1606
Feeding disabled horses. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of December 2, 1861, relative to feeding disabled horses during the winter
United States Department of War
1862
Fictitious gods
Arthur B. Moss
1800
Fifteen sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel
Joseph Butler
1726
Filial tribute
Jonathan F. Stearns
1859
First book, or introduction to Cobb's spelling book
Lyman Cobb
1834