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 contents of the History of ancient paganism, as delivered by Eusebius, &c
Francis Mason, Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius of Caesarea
1747
The controversie of the Lord against the priests of the nations and teachers of the people, who are in the vvay of Cain and Balaam, in sin, pride and covetousness, yet leaning upon the Lord, and have a profession of religion, a form of worship, but deny the power of God
Margaret Lynam, John Lynam
1676
The copie of the sermon preached before the Universitie at S. Maries in Oxford, on Tuesday the XXIV. of Decem. 1633
Thomas Browne
1634
The country-man's companion, or, A new method of ordering horses & sheep so as to preserve them both from diseases and causalties [sic], or, to recover them if fallen ill
Thomas Tryon
1684
The country-man's guide
William Winstanley
1679
The coward science
Charles "paid secretary" to the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection Adams, Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection
1882
The creation of man
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
1865
The creation reconciled to God
L. Dupré, Louis K. Dupré
1808
The creatures goodness, as they came out of God's hands, and the good mans mercy to the brute creatures, which God hath put under his feet
Thomas Hodges
1675
The crook in the lot: or The sovereignty and wisdom of God, in the afflictions of men, displayed
Thomas Boston, Alexander Colden, Gabriel Wilson, Henry Davidson
1792
The cruel vivisector, Pasteur, of Paris
Philip G. Peabody, Illinois Anti-Vivisection Society
1893
The cry of nature; or, An appeal to mercy and to justice, on behalf of the persecuted animals
John Oswald
1791
The cry of the suffering creatures
Mary Botham Howitt
1871
The cult of Sol Invictus
Gaston H. Halsberghe
1972
The cult of the dead in a Chinese village
Emily M Ahern
1970
The cultivation of personal magnetism
Edmund Shaftesbury
1895
The darkness of atheism dispelled by the light of nature
Walter Charleton
1652
The day, & the work of the day
Cotton Mather
1693
The deaf and dumb man's discourse. Or A treatise concerning those that are born deaf and dumb
George Sibscota
1670
The dealings of God with the nations of the earth
Robert Jr Travis
1860
The death of a wife lamented before God
Alfred Ely
1812
The decrees of God consistent with the free moral agency of man
Jacob Ide, American Doctrinal Tract Society, Perkins & Marvin
1832
The depth of the divine thoughts: and the regards due to them.
Timothy Cutler, Connecticut. General Assembly
1720
The devil worship of the Tuluvas
A. C. Burnell
1894