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
Wu xue lu chu bian
Rongguang Wu
1832Chinese
Wên miao ssǔ tien k'ao
Chung-lu P'ang
1878Chinese
Xiang li bu wang
Jin Zhu
1796Chinese
Xue li
Gong Li
1879Chinese
Yakushi rurikō nyorai shōsai jonan nenju giki
Yixing
1716Japanese
Yehovah und Elohim
M. H. Landauer
1836German
Yi li gu jin wen su yi
Chenggong Hu
1877Chinese
Yi li guan jian
Yinliang Chu
1888Chinese
Yi li shi guan
Kuangzhong Hu
1816Chinese
Yi li tu
Fu Yang
1644Chinese
Yi li zheng yi
Peihui Hu
1888Chinese
Zang jing
Pu Guo
1877Chinese
Zang shu
Pu Guo
1879Chinese
Zeedige overweeging op de praedikatie van d'Hr. Petrus Schaak
Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection
1691Dutch
Zeh Sefer Torat ha-adam
Naḥmanides
1518Hebrew
Zeh ha-shulḥan
Eliyahu ben Yosef Gig
1888Hebrew
Zhang Gaowen Yi li tu
Huiyan Zhang
1870Chinese
Zhi fu cheng song bian
Baozhang Zhou
1892Chinese
Zhivotnyi︠a︡ sposobnyi︠a︡ k usovershenstvovanīi︠u︡
Victor Meunier
1887Russian
Zhivotnyĭ ėpos na Zapadi︠e︡ i u slavi︠a︡n
L. Kolmachevskiĭ
1882Russian
Zhiznʹ i trudy Aleksandra Stepanovicha Batasheva
A. S. Batashev
1897Russian
Zhou guan xin yi
Anshi Wang
1853Chinese
Zmienność zwierząt i roślin w stanie kultury
Charles Darwin
1889Polish
Zoologia parva
Giuseppe Lanzoni
1688Latin