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
Histoire de Nôtre-Dame de Liesse
Etienne Nicolas Villette
1717French
Histoire de Saint Roch et de son culte
Recluz Abbé
1858French
Histoire de Saint-Gilles
P.-E. d' Everlange
1876French
Histoire de Sainte Radegonde, reine de France, et des sanctuaires et pèlerinages en son honneur
Émile Briand
1898French
Histoire de l'établissement du magnétisme animal
Pierre François Nicolas
1784French
Histoire des sectes tirees de l'armee sathanique
Thomas Beauxamis
1576French
Histoire des singes, et autres animaux curieux
Pons Augustin Alletz
1752French
Histoire des usages funèbres et des sépultures des peuples anciens
Ernest Feydeau
1856French
Histoire générale des cérémonies, moeurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde
Banier M. l'abbé
1741French
Historia atheismi
J. T. Philipps
1713Latin
Historia doctrinae de vero Deo omnium rerum auctore atque rectore
C. Meiners
1780Latin
Historiae naturalis de piscibus et cetis libri v.
Joannes Jonstonus
1649Latin
Historie générale des cérémonies, moeurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuple du monde
Banier M. l'abbé, Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier, Jean-Frédéric Bernard, Bernard Picart
1741French
Historiæ naturalis de quadrupedibus libri
Joannes Jonstonus
1657Latin
Hoc volumine continentur
Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius
1515Latin
Hoch-deutsches reformirtes A B C- und Namen-Büchlein
George W. Mentz
1807German
Hoch-deutsches reformirtes A B C- und Namen-Büchlein
George Gilbert
1852German
Hokke shokoku reijōki
Kyōto Toshimairikō
1852Japanese
Homeri Odyssea et carmina minora
Homer, F. A. Wolf, Gottfried Hermann
1827Ancient Greek
Hong gong jing shi lu
Liang Gui
1872Chinese
Honorati Fabri Societatis Jesu theologi Tractatus duo
Honoré Fabri
1677Latin
Honrras a la Catholica Magestad del Rey D. Phelipe Quatro
Gerolamo Stampa
1665Italian
Horae Tergestinae
J. G. Friedrich Will
1844German
Huang chao ji qi yue wu lu
Changda Xu
1871Chinese