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
Il monumento della grandezza reale alzato all gloriosa memoria del Rè catt. d. Filippo IV il Grande per le sollenni esequie
Pietro Giuseppe Ederi
1666Italian
Il neoplatonismo
Nuccio D'Anna
1988Italian
Il sacro rito di canonizare i santi
Giovanni Battista Memmi
1726Italian
Il tempio d'Iside e di Serapide di Regio
Giuseppe Logoteta
1794Italian
Il teotimo, osia, Il trattato dell' amor di Dio
Francis de Sales
1790Italian
Iliotropion, ili, Soobrazovanie chelovecheskoĭ voli s Bozhestvennoi︠u︡ volei︠u︡
Jeremias Drexel, Ioann Maksimovich Metropolitan of Tobolsk and All Siberia
1714CHU
Iljām al-ʻawāmm ʻan ʻilm al-kalām
al-Ghazzālī
1870Arabic
Illustrissimo heroi Richardo Domino Maitland, Caroli Comitis de Lauderdale filio natu maxime
Francis Barlow
1700Latin
Im Lande des Fetischs
Heinrich Bohner
1890German
Imana et le culte des mânes au Rwanda
M. Pauwels
1958French
In Platonis theologiam libri sex
Proclus Diadochus
1618Latin
In funere Caroli III Hispaniar. Regis Catholici oratio
Bernardino Ridolfi
1789Latin
In memoria di Franz Cumont
Raffaele Pettazzoni, Accademia Belgica in Roma
1950Italian
In obitum viri clarissimi Davidis Millii S.S. theologiae, linguarum orientalium, & antiquitatum Judaicarum in Academia Trajectina professoris, acerbo funere extincti XXII Maji MDCCLVI
Hermannus Oosterdyk
1756Latin
In originem, vsum foedum, et ritum profanum, bacchanaliorum
Ambrosius de Bruyn
1619Latin
Incipit liber primus beati Joa[n]nis crisostomi ad stagiriu[m] monachum de p[ro]uide[n]tia dei vtilis ad modu[m]
John Chrysostom
1487Latin
Incipiunt questiones de potencia dei disputate a fratre Thoma de Aquino de ordine predicatorum
Thomas Aquinas
1476Latin
Indices rerum in opere desiderato sapientia angelica de conjugio
Emanuel Swedenborg
1886Latin
Indogermanische Totenverehrung
Kurt Ranke
1951German
Informe dado al Consejo por la Real Academia de la Historia
Real Academia de la Historia (Spain
1786Spanish
Informe que rinde á la Secretaría de Fomento el Director del Instituto Médico Nacional, Dr. Fernando Altamirano, sobre algunas excursiones á las Montañas del Ajusco y Serranía de las Cruces
Fernando Altamirano, Instituto Médico Nacional
1895Spanish
Initiation aux mystères secrets de la théorie et de la pratique du magnétisme
J.-A Gentil
1849French
Inledning til djur-riket
Anders Jåhan Retzius
1772Swedish
Inleiding tot de leer van God
J. I. Doedes
1880Dutch