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
Ophthalmic operations as practiced on animals' eyes
Clarence A. Veasey
1896
Opinions of eminent and enlightened non-Zoroastrians regarding the Zoroastrian mode of disposal of the dead
Jehangir Jamshedji Motivala
1899
Oraibi flute altar
Jesse Walter Fewkes
1895
Oration on the gods
Robert Green Ingersoll
1877
Order of ceremonies and laws of the Society Mikveh Israel
Society Mikveh Israel
1899
Order of ceremonies and laws of the Society Mikveh Israel, or Institution for Preparing for Interment the Deceased Members of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London
England). Society 'Mikveh Israel' Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation (London
1845
Order of exercises in the East Parish Congregational Meeting-House in Newton, commemorative of the death of President William Henry Harrison, on National Fast Day, May 14, 1841
William B Tappan
1841
Order of services in the Church of the Messiah, on Thursday evening, Oct. 13, 1842, in memory of the Rev. William Ellery Channing, D.D.
Church of the Messiah
1842
Origin and development of the rituals of ancestor worship in India
Dakshinaranjan Shastri
1963
Ornaments for the daughters of Zion. Or The character and happiness of a virtuous woman
Cotton Mather, Thomas Parkhurst
1691
Orthodox unbelief and unbelieving orthodoxy
Moncure Daniel Conway
1883
Our Arctic province
Henry Wood Elliott
1887
Our aims
Francis William Newman
1879
Our country
William Pinkney
1854
Our country--its glory and its shame
Calvin Day Noble
1844
Our humble associates
George Leon Walker
1891
Our midnight friend
John S. Sands
1878
Our present health and safety owing intirely to the mercies of God
S. Wright
1723
Outlines of Messiah's kingdom, or the testimony of some of the psalms in regard to "the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto Him"
Alexander Baring-Gould
1894
Outlines of a plan for the formation of a new state of society
Alfred Addis
1831
Outlines of the structure and physiology of the animals of the farm for agricultural students and farmers
John F. Hodges
1862
Ovids Festivalls, or Romane calendar
Ovid, John Master of Arts Gower, Edward Alliston
1640
Palæographia sacra, or, Discourses on monuments of antiquity that relate to sacred history
William Stukeley
1736
Pamphlets - Germanic philology and literature
Adolf Arndt, K. Müllenhoff, Hermann Collitz, Paul Hermann Eduard Piper, Jost Winteler, Johannes Schmidt, Fedor Bech, Johann Stuhrmann, P. Riemann, Richard Wossidlo, R. Dahlmann, Richard Eduard Ottmann, Hermann Paul
1800