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
Ioannis Stephani Duranti secretioris regij consistorij consiliarij amplissimiq. Senatus Tolosani primi praesidis De ritibus Ecclesiae Catholicae
Jean Étienne Duranti
1591Latin
Iohannis Volkelii misnici de vera religione libri quinque
Johann Völkel, Johann Crell, Convers Francis, Edward Harwood
1630Latin
Isagoge ad amorem divinum
Pierre Pennequin
1661Latin
Ise nisho Daijingū shinmei hisho
Yukitada Nishigawara
1740Japanese
Iulii Firmici Materni v. c. De errore profanarum religionem ad Constantium et constantem Augg
Julius Firmicus Maternus
1603Latin
Ivlii Firmici Materni De errore profanarvm religionum libellvs
Julius Firmicus Maternus, Conrad Bursian
1856Latin
Ivnioris Lvdovici Pariseti Regiensis De divina in hominem benevolentia, atqve beneficentia
Ludovicus Parisetus
1552Latin
Iʻlām ahl al-ʻaṣr bi-aḥkām rakʻatay al-fajr
Muḥammad Shams al-Ḥaqq ʻAẓīmābādī
1888Arabic
Iḥkām al-qanṭarah fī aḥkām al-basmalah
Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥayy
1872Arabic
I︠A︡zycheskīĭ kult́ voti︠a︡kov
Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Blinov
1898Russian
J. v. Vondels Bespiegelingen van Godt en godtsdienst
Joost van den Vondel
1700Dutch
J. v. Vondels Bespiegelingen von Godt en Godtsdienst
Joost van den Vondel
1662Dutch
Jacobi Blancani, Bononiensis, academiae fulginatis ... De diis topicis fulginatium ad XII. viros , ac coetum ejusdem fulginatis academiae epistola
Giacomo Biancani
1769Latin
Jacobi Gutherii ...
Jacques Goutière, Anne Robert, Johannes Fritzsche
1671Latin
Jahrbücher für den Leben-Magnetismus
Karl Christian Wolfart
1818German
Jamblichi Protrepticus
Iamblichus
1888Latin
Jawharat al-tawḥīd
Ibrāhīm ibn Ibrāhīm Laqānī
1863Arabic
Jawāhir al-nafīs sharh Darāhim al-kīs
Shams al-Dīn Khurāsānī
1893Arabic
Jesu Verkündigung und Lehre vom Reiche Gottes in ihrer geschichtelichen Bedentung
Georg Schnedermann
1893German
Jesu Verkündigung und lehre vom Reiche Gottes in ihrer geschichtlichen bedeutung dargestellt
Georg Schnedermann
1895German
Ji Shenzhai xian sheng qiu yu quan shu
Dakui Ji
1898Chinese
Jia li
Xi Zhu
1659Japanese
Jian wu
Su Li
1846Chinese
Jiao zheng Kong shi da Dai li ji bu zhu
Shunan Wang
1879Chinese