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
Reply by John Bowie... to Professor Rutherford on vivisection
John Bowie
1880
Reply to the few plain questions of a brother missionary
Walter Henry Medhurst
1848
Report [and Testimony
United States. Select committee on transportation and sale of meat products
1890
Report addressed to a general meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Charles N. Pallmer
1828
Report by Mr. G.E.H. Barrett-Hamilton on his mission to the Russian Seal Islands in 1897
Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton
1898
Report for the investigation of abortion in cows
John Call Dalton
1868
Report of William Brown ... on the herds and flocks of Ontario
William Brown
1883
Report of a public discussion carried on by Henry Townley and George Jacob Holyoake
Henry Townley
1852
Report of proceedings at the meeting of the Philadelphia Bar, held April 27th, 1889
Philadelphia Bar Association
1889
Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of William Coffin and others, accompanied with a bill for their relief
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, United States. Congress House
1818
Report of the Departmental Committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture to inquire into the transit by water and the embarkation and landing of animals carried coastwise, with a copy of the minute appointing the committee
Great Britain. Cattle Transit Committee
1894
Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the effect of food derived from tuberculous animals on human health
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Tuberculosis
1895
Report of the departmental committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture to inquire into and report upon the inland transit of cattle
Great Britain. Committee on Inland Transit of Cattle
1898
Report of the experiments on animal magnetism, made by a committee of the medical section of the French Royal Academy of Sciences: read at the meeting of the 21st and 28th of June, 1831, translated, and now for the first time published
J. C. Colquhoun
1833
Report of the finance committee on the state funeral of her late Royal Highness Princess Likelike
Henry Perrine Baldwin, Hawaii. Committee on Finance
1887
Report of the proceedings
American Humane Association
1877
Report of the sub-committee on tuberculosis in cattle and its communicability to man
Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization
1889
Report on the Prybilov group, or, Seal islands, of Alaska
United States. Dept. of the Treasury
1873
Report on the magnetical experiments made by the commission of the Royal Academy of Medicine, of Paris, read in the meetings of June 21 and 28, 1831
Académie de médecine
1836
Report on the seals
William Sir Turner
1888
Report on tuberculosis in Ontario
P. H. Bryce
1894
Report upon natural history collections made in Alaska between the years 1877 and 1881
United States. Army. Signal Corps
1886
Report upon the Annelida Polychaeta of Beaufort, North Carolina
E. A Andrews
1891
Report upon the analysis of samples of mud, in connection with the investigation of the works of J. P. Squire & co., on Miller's River
J. M. Merrick
1873