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
Dissertation sur la question, la lune a-t-elle quelque influence sur la végétation & sur l'économie animale?
Laurent Béraud
1760French
Dissertation sur un temple octogone et plusiers bas-reliefs trouvez à Cestas
P. Jaubert
1743French
Dissertation sur une traité de Charles Le Brun concernant le rapport de la physionomie humaine avec celle des animaux
Charles Le Brun
1806French
Dissertationes scholasticae de divinis decretis Sacratissimae Virgini Mariae Dei-genetrici
Antonio de Peralta
1727Latin
Dissertationis academicae particulam secundam de sepultura hebraeorum
Carolus Possieth
1731Latin
Dissertations sur l'existence de Dieu
Jaquelot M
1697French
Dissertations sur la dilatation des arteres
Charles Arthaud
1771French
Dissertations sur quelques particularités des anciens cultes païens
J.-G.-H Greppo
1843French
Dissertazione sopra la teoria di Crawford intorno al calore animale e alla combustione
Giovacchino Carradori
1784Italian
Dissertazione sulla iniziazioine à misterj eleusini ovvero nuova speigazione del libro VI di Virgili
William Warburton
1793Italian
Diuus Plato
Πλάτων
1491Latin
Divi Vigilii martyris et episcopi Tridentini libri V
Bishop of Trent Vigilius Saint
1575Latin
Doctrina Origenis de [logō] divino ex disciplina Neoplatonica illustrata
Friedrich Wilhelm Rettberg
1830Latin
Doctrina aevi primi ac prisci praecipue Mosaici de Ente summo
Christian Friedrich Weber
1828German
Dogmaticheskoe znachenīe Sedʹmago Vselenskago Sobora
Gr Ostroumov
1884Russian
Domini Prosperi Caravita Ebolitani i.u.d. praeclarissimi ... Commentaria. Super ritibus magnae curiae vicariae regni Neapolis
Prospero Caravita
1563Latin
Dong wu zhen hua
Harold Munro Fox
1847Chinese
Doppelte Verthäidigung des Eben-Bildes der Pietisteren ...
Philipp Jakob Spener
1692German
Doutes d'un provincial
Joseph Michel Antoine Servan
1784
Drames liturgiques et rites figurés ou cérémonies symboliques
François Boutillier
1880French
Du hazard sous l'empire de la providence, pour servir de preservatif contre la doctrine du fatalisme moderne; par M. de Prémontval
André Pierre Le Guay de Prémontval
1755French
Du li cong chao
Fuyao Li
1891Chinese
Du li tong kao
Qianxue Xu
1696Chinese
Du li zhi yi
Longqi Lu
1816Chinese