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
Mémoire sur le culte de Mithra
Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall
1976French
Mémoire sur le cœur de Saint Louis et sur la découverte faite dans la Sainte-Chapelle le 15 mai 1843
Paulin Paris
1844French
Mémoire sur un animal aquatique d'une forme singulière
Sébastien François Bigot de Morogues
1755French
Mémoires d'une ex-palladiste, parfaite initiée, indépendante
Léo Taxil
1895French
Mōshi hinbutsu zukō
Genpō Oka
1785Japanese
Nabli͡u︡denīi͡a︡ nad faunoĭ Bi͡e︡lago mori͡a︡
V. M. Shimkevich
1889Russian
Nan gong miao ci si dian
Fenghan Li
1779Chinese
Nan shêng kung yü lu
Chang-chü Liang
1875Chinese
Nanboku rinji saishi ika fukushoku
Japanese Rare Book Collection
1815Japanese
Nasehat datang
ʻUthmān ibn ʻAbdallāh ibn ʻAqīl ibn Yaḥyā ʻAlawī
1899Malay
Nathurgeschichte, oder, kurtzgefasste Lebensabrisse der hauptsächlichsten wilden Thiere im Hertzogthum Bremen
Carl Vinnen
1899German
Naturali intelligentis animae capacitate atque appetitu intuendi divinam essentiam
Joachim Sestili
1896Latin
Naturgeschichte der lebenden und untergegangenen Thiere
Karl Christoph Vogt
1851German
Natuurkundige uitspanningen
Job Baster
1759Dutch
Natuurlyke histoire van de koraal-gewassen, en andere dergelyke zee-lighamen, die men gemeenelyk vind op de kusten van Groot-Brittanien en Ierland
John Ellis
1756Dutch
Nelle solenni esequie per la sacra cesarea reale apostolica maestà di Giuseppe Secondo imperatore e re
Stefano Bonsignori
1790Italian
Neoplatonismus und Christenthum
Karl August Traugott Vogt
1836German
Neptune
T.-B Emeric-David
1839French
Neue Beobachtungen und Versuche über das Blut und über den Ursprung der thierischen Wärme
Pietro conte Moscati, Karl Heinrich Köstlin
1780German
Neue Mechanik der willkührlichen Bewegungen des Menschen und der Thiere
P.-J Barthez, Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel
1800German
Neue Versuche über die Temperatur der kaltblütigen Thiere
A. A. Berthold
1835German
Neue auf Vernunft und Erfahrung gegründete Entdeckungen über die Sprache der Thiere
Gottfried Immanuel Wenzel
1800German
Neue ornamente
Arnold Lyongrün
1899German
Neuvaines en l'honneur des saints de la Compagnie de Jésus
Nicolas Verron
1792Latin