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
Of adoration in general
Richard Richardson
1680
Of our obligation to put our trust in God
William Wake
1695
Of our obligation to put our trust in God, rather than in men, and of the advantages of it
William Wake
1695
Of preparation for death and judgment
George Stanhope
1695
Of the high veneration man's intellect owes to God
Robert Boyle
1685
Of the high veneration man's intellect owes to God, peculiarly for his wisedom and power
Robert Boyle
1711
Of the love of God
Francis de Sales
1899
Of the love of God and our neighbour
Isaac Barrow, Miles Flesher, Thomas Barrow, David Loggan, John Tillotson
1680
Of the love of God and our neighbour, in several sermons : the third volume
Isaac Barrow
1680
Of the reverence due to God in his publick worship
Nicholas Stratford
1694
Of the vvisdom and goodness of Providence
John Moore
1690
Of trust in God, or, A discourse concerning the duty of casting our care upon God in all our difficulties
Nathaniel Spinckes
1696
Oh! the day, the dreadful and terrible day of God
D. B
1660
Oile of scorpions
Francis Rous
1623
Old English customs extant at the present time
P. H. Ditchfield
1896
Ole Rabbit's plantation stories
Mary Alicia Owen
1898
Omniscience the attribute of the father only
Joseph Hutton, American Unitarian Association, Bowles and Dearborn, Isaac R. Butts and Co
1820
On "the most comely names," i.e. the laudatory epithets, or the titles of praise, bestowed on God in the Qurʻān or by Muslim writers
James W. Sir Redhouse
1880
On a definite method of qualitative analysis of animal and vegetable colouring-matters by means of the spectrum microscope
Henry Clifton Sorby
1867
On a new secret powder for horses
Bracy Clark
1859
On afflictions
Amos Glover Baldwin
1812
On animal and vegetable parasites of the human body
Friedrich Küchenmeister
1857
On casting horses for operations, with a description of the new casting hobbles
Bracy Clark
1842
On cruelty to animals
Thomas Chalmers
1826