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
La vie psychique des bêtes
Ludwig Büchner, Ch Letourneau
1881French
La vie sein des mers
Louis Dollo
1891French
La vision
Jacques Cambry
1784French
La vraie manière d'élever de multiplier et d'engraisser les lapins a la ville et a la campagne
Louis Ravageaux
1865French
Lactantii Firmiani De diuinis institutionibus libri septem
Lactantius, Giovanni Andrea Bussi, Antonio da Rho, Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus, Vincentius Benalius, Richard Ashhurst Bowie
1493Latin
Lactantii Firmiani de diuinis institutionibus aduersus ge[n]tes
Lactantius
1490Latin
Lactantii Firmiani institutionu[m] diuina[rum] aduersu[s] gentes
Lactantius, Giovanni Andrea Bussi, Antonio da Rho, Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus, Adam Genuensis, Konrad Sweynheim, Arnold Pannartz, Ambroise de Cambrai, Charles Sumner, Adriana R. Salem
1470Ancient Greek
Lactantii Firmiani institutionum diuinarum aduersum gentes libri primi pr[a]efatio ...
Lactantius
1474Latin
Lagrymas de la paz
Domingo Balcárcel y Formento
1762Spanish
Lama'āt-i Fakhr al-Dīn 'Irāqī
Fakhr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ʻIrāqī
1730Persian
Lamindi Pritanii redivivi epistola paraenetica ad patrem Benedictum Plazza e Societate Jesu, censorem minus aequum libelli della Regolata divozione de' Cristiani di Lamindo Pritanio
Lodovico Antonio Muratori
1755Latin
Laozi yan
Fuzhi Wang
1865Chinese
Laudatio infunere Francisco Medicei e serenissimis hetruriae principibus
Baldovino di Monte
1614Latin
Laurentii Banck nocropensis Gothi J.U.D. ... Roma triumphans
Laurentius Gunnari Banck
1656Latin
Lavrencii Vallensis oratoris clarissimi De libero arbitrio et providencia divina tractatvlvs feliciter incipit
Lorenzo Valla, Georg Husner, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
1475Latin
Lavrentius Valla De libero arbitrio
Lorenzo Valla
1526Latin
Lawāmiʻ al-asinnah fī al-ṣalāh ʻalá ʻayn al-raḥmah wa-al-minnah bi-asmāʾ Allāh al-ḥasná
Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ Ibn Mulūkah
1855Arabic
Le Cirque olympique, ou, Les exercices des chevaux de MM. Franconi, du cerf Coco, du cerf Azor, de l'eléphant Baba
née de V B. Mme
1817French
Le Clergé a tous les diables
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
1789French
Le Fétichisme
Louis-Alphonse de Montrouï
1868French
Le Livre de vraye et parfaicte oraison
Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples
1528French
Le Mois de Marie des familles
L. Provancher
1877French
Le XII pietre pretiose, le qvali per ordine di dio nella santa legge, adornauano i vestimenti del sommo sacerdote
Andrea Bacci
1587Latin
Le bestiaire divin de Guillaume, clerc de Normandie, trouvère du XIIIe. siècle
Guillaume le Clerc de Normandie
1852French