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
Bukkiryō senchū bunshaku
Tsugiaki Katō
1810Japanese
Bukkyō minzoku to sosen saishi
Hisao Tanaka
1986Japanese
Butsuzō zui
Japanese Rare Book Collection
1752Japanese
Bär (wolf) und fuchs
Kaarle Krohn, Oskar Hackman
1888Finnish
Caesaris Evoli neapolitani De divinis attributis quae sephirot ab Hebraeis nuncupata
Cesare Evoli, Francesco Ziletti
1573Latin
Campagnes scientifiques du yacht monégasque l'Hirondelle
Jules de baron Guerne
1888French
Cantos sagrados do xangô do Recife
José Jorge de Carvalho
1993Portuguese
Caroli Scribani e Societate Iesv Amor divinvs
Carolus Scribanius
1615Latin
Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturæ
Carl Linnaeus, Johann Friedrich Gmelin
1789Latin
Carta dirijida a S.S. Ilma. el R. obispo de esta diócesis, Dr. D. Mariano Fernandez de Córdova, en la cuestion "defunciones"
Hipólito María Velasco
1860Spanish
Caspar Sasgerus Minorita De cultu & ueneratione sanctorum
Kaspar Schatzgeyer
1521Latin
Caspar Sasgerus Minorita De cultu et veneratione sanctorum
Kaspar Schatzgeyer
1524Latin
Casti Innocentis Ansaldi ordinis praedicatorum De Romana tutelarium deorum in oppugnationibus urbium evocatione liber singularis
Casto Innocente Ansaldi
1753
Catalogo degli acalefi del golfo di Napoli
Alessandro Spagnolini
1870Italian
Causeries mesmériennes
Alexandre Bauche
1865French
Causeries sur la psychologie des animaux
F. M. Troegel
1862German
Cenni storici intorno al sangue miracoloso che si venera nella parrocchiale basilica di S. Maria del Vado in Ferrara
Eugenio Cimatti
1857Italian
Charitas ou Fate ben, fratelli
Auguste Coudour
1854French
Charles Georges Leroy und seine "Lettres philosophiques"
Moses Marx
1898German
Cheju k'ŭn'gut yŏn'gu
Mu-byŏng Mun, 문 무병
2018Korean
Chelovi︠e︡k i zhivotnoe
S. Fisher
1899Russian
Chi feng da wang jiang jun ji lue
Shouyong Zhu
1889Chinese
Chin ding li bu chuan xuan ze li
Xingke
1814Chinese
Chong kan Li ji sheng du
Yi Peng
1807Chinese