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
Le Cabinet du naturaliste, ou, Esquisses interessantes du l'histoire des animaux ... ouvrage enrichi de soixante-cinq belles gravures
Thomas Smith
1810
Lectures delivered to the employes of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
1882
Lectures on general pathology
Julius Cohnheim
1889
Lectures on the atheistic controversy
Benjamin Godwin
1834
Lectures on the second coming and kingdom of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
William Kelly
1865
Les mystères de l'océan
Arthur Mangin
1864
Les plages de la France
Armand Landrin
1866
Lessons on the phenomena of industrial life
Richard Dawes
1854
Let us draw nigh!
Andrew Murray
1895
Letter addressed to Elias Hicks, minister of the Society of Friends in the state of New York
J Nancarrow
1817
Letter from Peter Cooper to the delegates to the Evangelical Alliance, New York, 1870
Peter Cooper
1870
Letter from a committee of citizens to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on the proposed Schuylkill drove-yard and abattoir
Henry Hartshorne
1874
Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, transmitting a list of persons employed and statement of expenditures and of means adopted for the suppression of contagious and infectious diseases among domestic animals
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
1884
Letter from the secretary of the Treasury
Henry Wood Elliott
1896
Letter of the Commissioner of Agriculture to the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, transmitting a communication from H. R. Helper, United States consul at Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, in reference to the purchase, by our government, of a flock of alpacas
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture
1866
Letter to T. Collyns Simon ..
M. P. W. Bolton
1863
Letter to T. Collyns [sic] Simon, Esq., author of The philosophical answer to Essays and reviews
M. P. W. Bolton
1863
Letter to T. Collyns [sic] Simon, Esq., author of The philosophical answer to Essays and reviews, concerning the doctrine of Hamilton and Mansel
M. P. W. Bolton
1863
Letter to the Episcopal Church Congress
Peter Cooper
1874
Letters concerning the live of God
John Norris, Mary Astell
1695
Letters concerning the love of God
John Norris, Mary Astell
1695
Letters from the Hon. David Humphreys, F. R. S. to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks ...
David Humphreys, Joseph Banks
1817
Letters on Universalism
N. W Hodges
1835
Letters on the existence and character of the Deity, and on the moral state of man
Thomas Dobson
1799