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
Beschrijving van het werktuig tot vorming van het geluid bij de Simia seniculus, Linn
Gerard Sandifort
1836Dutch
Beskrivelser og iagttagelser over nogle mærkelige eller nye i havet ved den bergenske kyst levende dyr af polypernes, aca;ephernes, radiaternes, annelidernes og molluskernes classer
M. Sars
1835Danish
Beskrivelser og iagttagelser over nogle mærkelige eller nye i havet ved den bergenske kyst levende dyr af polypernes, acalephernes, radiaternes, annelidernes, og molluskernes classer
M. Sars
1835Norwegian
Bestätigung der Lehre von Gott und der heiligen Schrift
Heinrich Christoph Nebel
1749German
Betrachtung der wilden Thiere
Barthold Heinrich Brockes
1736French
Betrachtungen über die Lehre von Gott und seinen Eigenschaften
Johann Melchior Goeze
1757German
Betrachtungen über die christlichen Glaubenslehren
Jakob Peter Mynster
1835German
Beweis aus der neueren Raumtheorie für die Realität von zeit und Raum und für das Dasein Gottes
Gustav Bellermann
1889German
Bewys dat God is
François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
1715Dutch
Beʼur ʻal pereḳ shirah ..
Mordekhai Eliʻezer Ṿeber
1888Hebrew
Bian fu shi li
Dachun Ren
1860Chinese
Bibelwort und Gotteswort
Evangelicus
1896German
Bible history
A.B.C.F.M. Mission Press
1841Thai
Bidrag til den underjordiske fauna
Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte
1849Danish
Bidrag till kundskab om Christianiafjordens fauna
M. Sars
1868Norwegian
Bilder aus dem altjüdischen Familienleben
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
1880German
Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Wirbelthiere
Leopold Joseph Fitzinger
1867German
Black-Fryers
Richard Hord
1625Latin
Boecxken van verduldich lijden ...
Bernard of Clairvaux
1500Dutch
Breve e susta[n]tiale trattato intorno alle figure anathomiche delli più principali animali terestri, aquatili, et volatili
Jean Father Germain, Luigi Riccio, Marco Aurelio Severino
1625Italian
Breve racconto della trasportatione del corpo di papa Paolo V. dalla basilica di S. Pietro a qvella di S. Maria Maggiore ...
Lelio Guidiccioni
1623Italian
Breves observationes de doctrina sacra et locis theologicis
Gommaire Huygens
1694Latin
Brevis analysis tractatus de Deo uno et trino
Bernhard Jungmann
1873Latin
Brod und Wein, oder die beiden Dionyse
Johann Traugott Leberecht Danz
1843German