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
Plvtarchi Chaeronei philosophi clarissimi liber De garrvlitate ; eivsdem De esv carnivm orationes dvae
Plutarch
1554Latin
Polydori Vergilii Urbinatis De inuentoribus rerum libri tres
Polydore Vergil, Christophorus de Pensis, J. E. P
1499Latin
Polydori Vergilii vrbinatis De rervm inuentoribvs libri VIII. Et De prodigiis libri III. Cum indicibus locupletissimis
Polydore Vergil
1644Latin
Polythéisme et fétichisme
Maurice Briault
1929French
Pompa Funebris M[e]d[iolanen]sis Franc. I Aug
Fondo Cicognara
1766Italian
Pompa funebre per le solenni esequie di Maria Isabella di Braganza, regina delle Spagne e delle Spagne e delle Indie
Giuseppe Antonio Guattani
1820Italian
Pompe fvnebri, di tvtte le nationi del mondo
Francesco Perucci
1639Italian
Pomponii Leti viri clarissimi : opuscula. De Romanorum magistratibus. De sacerdotijs. De iurisperitis. De legibus eorundem. De antiquitatibus vrbis
Giulio Pomponio Leto
1511Latin
Poni︠a︡tīe o Bogi︠e︡ ni︠e︡skolʹkikh lit︠s︡, odinakovo ponimai︠u︡shchikh uchenīe Khrista
Лев Толстой
1897Russian
Popis stanovništva i domaće stoke u Kraljevini Srbiji 31. decembra 1895. godine =
Serbia. Ministarstvo narodne privrede. Statističko odeljenje
1897Serbian
Poradnik weterynaryi gospodarczéj czyli nauka dochodzenia przyczyn, poznawania i leczenia chorób zwierząt domowych ... Ryciny
Jakób Henryk Lewandowski
1850Polish
Porphyrius der Neuplatoniker und Christenfeind
Anton Ignaz Kleffner
1896German
Portae lucis hec est porta tetragramaton iusti intrabut peam ...
Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla
1516Hebrew
Praktische Anwendung des animalischen oder thierischen Magnetismus als Heilmittel für Nervenkrankheiten
D. von Quenaudon
1846German
Praktischer Unterricht über den thierischen Magnetismus
J. P. F. Deleuze
1854German
Preclarum opusculu[m] Dionysii Areopagite. De diuinis nominibus
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Marsilio Ficino, Peter Liechtenstein, Jacopo Pencio
1501Latin
Précis historique des faits relatifs au magnétisme-animal jusques an avril 1781
Franz Anton Mesmer
1781French
Principes de mécanique animale
Félix Giraud-Teulon
1858French
Priruchennyi︠a︡ zhivotnyi︠a︡ i vozdi︠e︡lannyi︠a︡ rastenīi︠a︡
Charles Darwin
1868Russian
Prix-courant
Lemaitre & Bontemps, Aubine-Lemaitre
1885French
Procli Platonici de conscribendis epistolis libellus..
Proclus Diadochus
1856Multiple languages
Procli philosophi Platonici opera
Proclus, Victor Cousin
1820Ancient Greek
Proclilycii Diadochi Platonici philosophi eminentissimi Elementa theologica et physica
Proclus
1583Latin
Procès contre des animaux et insectes suivis au moyen âge dans la Picardie & le Valois
Alexandre Sorel
1877French