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
Panzooryktologia, sive, Panzoologicomineralogia, or, A compleat history of animals and minerals
Robert Lovell
1661
Pardon for the greatest sinners
Jonathan Edwards
1832
Pathetism; with practical instructions
La Roy Sunderland
1843
Paths of providence
John Herbert Clifford, Pa.) Unitarian Society of Germantown (Philadelphia
1891
Pessimism, science and God
John Page Hopps
1894
Philanthrōpia, or, The transcendency of Christs love towards the children of men
Peter preacher of the Gospel Williams
1665
Philosophical dissertations
Benjamin Parker
1735
Philosophy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1851
Philosophy of electro-biology, or, Electrical psychology
John Bovee Dods, G. W. Stone
1852
Philozoia
Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster
1839
Photographs of a galloping horse
Richard A. Proctor
1882
Physical experiments upon brutes
Browne Langrish
1746
Physical experiments upon brutes : in order to discover a safe, and easy method of dissolving the stone in the bladder by injections
Browne Langrish, Boston Medical Library
1746
Physico-physiological researches in the dynamics of magnetism, electricity, heat, light, crystallization, & chemism, in their relations to vital force
Karl Freiherr von Reichenbach
1855
Physico-theology
Thomas Morgan
1741
Pickings on the sea-shore
Charles Williams
1857
Pietas Hallensis, or, A publick demonstration of the foot-steps of a divine being yet in the world
August Hermann Francke, Anton Wilhelm Boehme
1705
Pity's gift
Pratt Mr
1801
Pleuro-pneumonia. Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relative to the cattle disease or pleuro- pneumonia
Massachusetts
1860
Plotini platonicorum facile coryphaei Operum philosophicorum omnium libri LIV, in sex enneades distributi
Plotinus
1580
Plotinus
John Rist
1977
Poisonous insects /by Charles V. Riley...
Charles V. Riley
1887
Political instruction from the prophecies of God's word--
Nathan Strong
1798
Polypoikilos sophia
John Edwards
1699