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
Mr. Whistons letter to the right honourable the Earl of Nottingham, concerning the eternity of the son of God, and of the Holy Spirit
William Whiston
1721
Mrs. Wesley's conference with her daughter
Susanna Annesley Wesley
1898
Murders
Henry Fielding, Hannah More
1795
Mutual forbearance recommended in things indifferent
Walter Farquhar Hook
1843
My edict royal
Thomas Tany
1655
Mysteries and revelations or, The explication and application of severall extra-essentiall and borrowed names, allusions, and metaphors in the scripture
Ralph Venning
1652
Mysteries and revelations, or, The explication and application of several extra-essential and borrowed names, allusions, and metaphors in the Scripture
Ralph Venning
1647
Mysteries of Eleusis
Sergeĭ Semenovich graf Uvarov
1992
Mysteries philosophically explained
George S. Doyle
1843
Mystery, no reason for infidelity
Samuel Mead
1807
Méditations en forme de retraite sur l'amour de Dieu
Loyd Avery
1796
National Thanksgiving sermon
D. H Hamilton
1866
National blessings and judgments considered
Richard Whately
1831
National sins, the cause of national judgments
Amos Savage
1836
Native Israelitish deities
George A. Barton, Oriental Club of Philadelphia
1894
Natural flowers embalmed by the Oriental process, used by no others in Philadelphia
Philadephia Hardy & Yarnall's
1870
Natural history of the world
Alfred H. Miles
1895
Natural history of those fishes that are indigenous to, or occasionally frequent the coasts of Buchan
James jr Arbuthnot
1815
Nature confin'd: or, A discourse of the divine all-sufficiency, and humane insufficiency. By John Jermy, esq
John Jermy
1667
Nature, progress, ideas
Tayler Lewis
1850
Nature-worship and taboo
William Charles Willoughby
1932
Needles, herbs, gods, and ghosts
Linda L. Barnes
2005
Negro myths from the Georgian coast told in the vernacular
Charles Colcock Jones Jr
1888
Nehemiah the Tirshatha, or, The character of a good commissioner
Thomas Bell
1692