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
Sitten und gebräuche bei hochzeiten
Franz Schmidt
1863German
Skazanie o vozstanovlenii ikonopochitanii︠a︡
Memnon Petrovich Petrovskiĭ
1886CHU
Slavi︠a︡nskie pori︠a︡dki
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Kotli︠a︡revsʹkyĭ
1891Russian
Sobranīe pi︠e︡sen, skazok, obri︠a︡dov i obychaev krestʹi︠a︡n Si︠e︡vero-zapadnago krai︠a︡, M.A. Dmitrīeva
M. Dmitrīev
1869Russian
Sod ha-niḳud ha-nigleh
Louis Cappel
1624Latin
Sokrashchenīe nravstvennoĭ Dergamovoĭ Fiziki i astronomīi v Bi︠e︡lgorodskoĭ Seminarīi uchinennoe
William Derham
1797Russian
Soledades del amor divino
Alonso fray Pastor, Bernardo Nogués, Claudio Macé, Edward Glaser, Herederos de Juan Crisóstomo Garriz
1655Spanish
Some reflections on cruelty towards the brute creation
Pratt Mr
1796
Sommaire recit dv solonnel appareil et ceremonies faictes en l'eglise de S. Pierre de Rome
Giovanni Briccio
1622French
Somnium Scipionis ex sexto libro De republica M. Tullii Ciceronis
Cicero, Petrus Ramus, Jacques Bogard
1546Latin
Sosen sūhai
Chōshū Takeda
1957Japanese
Sosen sūhai no kenkyū
Takashi Maeda
1965Japanese
Sosen sūhai no shūkyōgakuteki kenkyū
Sojun Moroto
1972Japanese
Soshitsujiin
Ninnaji. Kaimyōji
1869Japanese
Specimen academicum, emphasin similitudinum nonnullarum Sacri Codicis e regno animali exhibens
David P. Starck, Carolus Abrahamus Clewberg
1755Latin
Specimen inaugurale medicum de electricitate animali quam dicere solent magnetismum animalem ...
Friedrich Ludwig Segnitz
1790Latin
Specimen physiologiae comparatae inter animantia calidi et frigidi sanguinis
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
1787Latin
Spicilegium controversiarum illustrium de nominibus Dei Jehovah Elohim
Michael Walther
1660Latin
Spiele der Thiere
Karl Groos
1896German
Ssǔ-man shih shu i
Sima Guang
1720Chinese
Statio quinta et sexta et appendix libri Mevakif
ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad Ījī, Th Soerensen, Jurjānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Sayyid al-Sharīf
1848Arabic
Statuas haec antiquas ab Edmundo Bouchardon ... delineatas Io. Iustinus Preisler ...
Johann Justin Preissler
1732Latin
Statut für die Beerdigungs-Anstalt der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin
Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin. Beerdigungs-Anstalt
1858German
Statuti suntuari ricordati da Giovanni Villani circa il vestiaro delle donne i regalie e banchetti delle nozze e circa la pompe funebri ordinati dal Comune di Pistoia negli anni 1332 e 1333
Giovanni Villani
1815Italian