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
The Claims of animals
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
1877
The Constitution our ark in the storm
Eden B. Foster
1862
The Contrast: or, The death-bed of a free-thinker, and the death-bed of a Christian
V. D
1806
The Creator and the creaton
John Young
1870
The Crustacea and Echinodermata of the Pacific shores of North America
William Stimpson
1857
The Danish Ingolf-Expedition
C. F. Wandel, Københavns universitet. Zoologisk museum, Danish Ingolf-Expedition
1899
The Death Valley expedition
United States. Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy
1893
The Death bed of a free-thinker
V. D
1822
The Death-bed of a free-thinker
Alexander Anderson
1827
The Divine Being and its attributes demonstrated
Paulus Buchius
1693
The Divine Being and its attributes philosophically demonstrated from the Holy Scriptures, and original nature of things
Paulus Buchius
1693
The Divine Will Considered in its Eternal Decrees, And Holy Execution Of them
Edward Polhill
1673
The Eleusinian mysteries ms : poems
Fleda Brown Jackson
1992
The Enneads
Plotinus
1962
The Etruscan ancestral cult
Helle Damgaard Andersen
1993
The Father alone
Joseph Jevans
1822
The Father of Jesus the Christian's God, or the doctrine of scripture concerning the object of religious worship contrasted with prevalent forms of prayer
Benjamin Mardon
1819
The Father, the only proper object of Christian worship
Frederick A. Farley, Conn.) Polanen Chapel (Bridgeport
1849
The Fathergood of God
Thomas J. Crawford
1868
The Folly and Unreasonableness of Atheism
Richard Bentley, Henry Mortlock
1699
The Form of the proceeding to the funeral of Her late Majesty Queen Mary II of blessed memory
Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk
1695
The Gentile and the Jew in the courts of the Temple of Christ
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger
1862
The God of the Jews and Christians, the great Jehovah; or, The Trinity in unity. Embellished with a correct likeness
Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge
1828
The God proposed for our national constitution
William Denton
1872