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
Disputationis de Deo
Adolf Drechsler
1848Latin
Disputationum theologicarum ... tomus primus
Theodorus Smising
1627Latin
Disputationum zoologicarum, publicè ante hac habitarum, de basilisco, unicornu, phoenice, behemoth
Georg Kaspar Kirchmayer
1661Latin
Disputationvm theologicarvm vndecima, de providentia Dei
Carolus Becius, André Rivet
1620Latin
Dispvtationvm adversvs gentes libri VIII
Arnobius of Sicca, Sigmund Gelen
1546Latin
Disquisitio de Dei erga hominem amore, principe religionis Christianae loco ..
Johannes Henricus Scholten
1836Latin
Dissertatio De carentia sensus & cognitionis in brutis
Antoine Le Grand
1675Latin
Dissertatio De leone mansvefactio
Andreas Bruhn, Laur. Petr Sporsel
1805Arabic
Dissertatio academica de genuina nominis Jehova (Yahṿeh) origine
Carolus Dettlav Sipelius, Johannes Bonsdorff
1815Latin
Dissertatio critico-theologica inauguralis ʻAvodah zarah shebe-emunat ha-Romiyim, sive, Sacra pontificiorum gentilitia exhibens
Gustav Haartman
1740Latin
Dissertatio de Deo Ebraeorum Montano ...
Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch
1746Latin
Dissertatio de mammalibus esculentis
Michael Gstoettner
1839Latin
Dissertatio de materia medica in regno animali ...
Carl Linnaeus, Jonas Sidrén, Uppsala 1750
1750Latin
Dissertatio exegetica de Gad et Meni Iudaeorum hodiernorum diis ad Es.LXV. comm.XI
Gustav Georg Zeltner
1715Latin
Dissertatio exegetica de notione Regni Coelestis in N.T. ...
Gottlob Christian Storr, Fridericus Wilhelmus Koestlin
1782Ancient Greek
Dissertatio inauguralis de actione funeraria, lingua vernacula
Johann Philipp Slevogt, Jo. Nicolaus Rademacherus
1744Latin
Dissertatio juridica de effectu et obligatione laudi ...
Jakob Friedrich Ludovici, Dietericus Daniel Cotta
1711German
Dissertatio moralis philosophica de amore Dei puro et perfecto, subtili nimis mysticorum commento
Georg Christoph Feuerlein
1717Latin
Dissertatio philologica de teraphim
Clemens J. Rudin
1674Latin
Dissertatio philologico theologica de consilio divino creandi hominem cum imagine sua ad similitudinem suam
Everhardus Antonius Kruimel
1743Latin
Dissertatio philologico-historica de more veterum in locis editis colendi Deum
Gothilf Traugott Zachariä
1754Latin
Dissertatio quarta
Francescantonio Zaccaria
1750Latin
Dissertatio theologica de salute electorum in uno montium Morijae procuranda juxta fidem veterum declaratam Genes. XXII
Johann Wessel
1715Latin
Dissertatio theologica de vero conceptu ceremoniae religionis ...
Johann Jakob Plitt
1759Latin