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
De antiquissima Apollinis natura
F. L. W. Schwartz
1843Latin
De antiqvis romanorvm ritibvs
Giovanni Battista Casali
1644Italian
De ara apud Graecae
Aloïs de Molin
1884Latin
De ascensione mentis in Deum per scalas rerum creatarum
Roberto Francesco Romolo Saint Bellarmino
1615Latin
De ascensione mentis in Deum per scalas rerum creatarum opusculum
Roberto Francesco Romolo Saint Bellarmino
1626Latin
De ascensione mentis in Deum per scalas rerum creaturarum opusculum
Roberto Francesco Romolo Saint Bellarmino
1615Latin
De ascensione mentis in Deum per scalus rerum creatarum opusculum
Roberto Francesco Romolo Saint Bellarmino
1616Latin
De aure et auditv hominis et animalium
Ernst Heinrich Weber
1820Latin
De brasilianske knoglehuler og de i dem forekommende dyrelevninger
J. Reinhardt
1888Danish
De cognitione Dei innata dissertationem ...
Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard
1841Latin
De consecrationis dedicationisque apud Romanos generibus variis
Karl Johann Ludwig Michael Eichhoff
1859Latin
De cultu Dioscurorum apud graecos
James Morton Paton
1894Latin
De cultu ac usu luminum antiquo qui qualis fuerit
Heinrich Christian Ludwig Stockhausen
1727Latin
De cvltv animalivm inter Aegyptios et Ivdaeos
Johann Heinrich Schumacher
1773Latin
De deo
Matthias Martini
1616Latin
De deo Platonis ..
B. Pansch
1876Latin
De deo uno
Ferdinand Stentrup, Ferdinand Alois Stentrup
1895Latin
De dieren
Willem Bilderdijk
1817Dutch
De dis patrōois
Bader
1873Latin
De dis syris syntagmata II
John Selden
1617Latin
De divinis honoribus quos acceperunt Alexander et successores ejus ..
Émile Beurlier
1890Latin
De ebraeorum luctu lugentiumq́, ritibus
Martin Geier
1656Latin
De evangelische zending als getuige van den goddelijken oorsprong des Christendoms
Nicholas Poulain
1882Dutch
De expresso Dei verbo = O zřetedlném slowo Bozijm
Stanislaus Hosius
1590Czech