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
Superstitio svperstes, or, The reliques of superstition newly revived
Daniel Cawdrey
1641
Supplement to A memoir concerning the fascinating faculty which has been ascribed to the rattle-snake, and other American serpents
Benjamin Smith Barton
1800
Supplement to the Roman breviary, containing offices proper to the Order of Discalced Carmelites
Catholic Church
1896
Support under trials.
James Jones Wilmer
1795
Supremacy of the father asserted; or, Eight arguments from scripture
Thomas Chubb
1718
Sweet amidst the bitter
H. F. Hurn
1862
Systematic zoology and nomenclature
Alexander Agassiz
1871
Tabular view of the orders and leading families of Myriapoda, Arachnida, Crustacea, Annelida and Entozoa
Joseph Wilson Lowry
1850
Tabular view of the primary divisions of the animal kingdom, intended to serve as an outline of an elementary course of recent zoology (caino-zoology); or, the natural history of existing animals
Robert Edmond Grant
1861
Tagathon, or, Divine goodness explicated and vindicated from the exceptions of the atheist
Richard Burthogge
1672
Taplin improved
Henry Bracken
1815
Tela praevisa
Cotton Mather
1724
Terrors of the pestilence
Richard S Storrs
1855
Testimony of Jehovah sure and perfect, a sermon preached in Salem before the Bible society ... 1818
Samuel Worcester
1818
Testimony of four witnesses to the Divine goodness
Henry W. Bellows
1845
Thanks-giving sermon for the recovery of his present Majesty King George III ...
Ralph King
1797
Thanksgiving by faith for our country's future
Daniel Steele
1863
Thanksgiving sermon
Alexander H. Vinton
1860
The "Essays and reviews," examined, on the principles of common-sense
James Taylor
1861
The "goodly heritage"
Theodore Frelinghuysen White
1860
The African element in the fauna of India
William Thomas Blanford
1876
The Almighty his gracious token of love to his friend Abraham, or, A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Bristol, January 3, 1674
Richard Towgood
1676
The American veterinarian, or diseases of domestic animals, showing the causes, symptoms, and remedies, and rules for restoring and preserving health, by good management
S. W. Cole
1847
The American veterinarian, or, Diseases of domestic animals : showing the causes, symptoms, and remedies, and rules for restoring and preserving health by good management : with directions for training and breeding
Samuel Cole, Samuel W Cole
1847