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
[De Romanorum magistratibus]
L. Fenestella
1478Latin
[De vita Macrinae sororis, and other selections from Ms. grec 584 in the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris]
Saint Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom Saint, Bibliothèque nationale
1100Ancient Greek
[Diui Augustini librorum pars septima
Augustine of Hippo
1505Latin
[Epiklēseis theōn] sive, De deorum cognominibus per grammaticorum Graecorum scripta dispersis
Georg Wentzel
1889Greek
[Gnōthi seauton]
Matthias Flacius Illyricus
1568Latin
[Iḵẖwān al-ṣafā
Ikrām ʻAlī, Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ
1810Urdu
[Ma aśeh rav
Issachar Baer ben Tanḥum
1831Hebrew
[Shujishū]
Chōzen
1670Japanese
[Suite of engravings after Hoefnagel's Archetypa Studiaque Patris Georgio Hoefnagelii]
Justus Sadeler
1614Italian
[Ōrigenous dialogos kata Markiōnistǹ hē peri tēs eis Theon orthēs piseōs protpentikos eis martyrion antigraph pros tēn aphrikanou peri tēs kata Sōsannan isorias ēpsolō]
Johann Rudolf Wettstein, Origen comm
1674Latin
al- Risālah al-kubrá fī al-Basmalah
Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī Ṣabbān
1880Arabic
al-Burhān al-ṣarīḥ fī ḥaqīqat sirray dīn al-Masīḥ
ʻAbd Allāh Zākhir
1764Arabic
al-Durr al-farīd fī ʻilm al-tawḥīd
Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān_ al-Naḥrāwī
1881Arabic
al-Durr al-manthūr fī tafsīr Asmāʾ Allāh al-Ḥusná bi-al-maʾthūr
ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Yaḥyá
1877Arabic
al-Jawāb al-kāfī li-man saʾala ʻan al-dawāʾ al-shāfī
Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīyah
1889Arabic
al-Jawāʼiz wa-al-ṣilāt min jamʻ al-asāmī wa-al-ṣifāt
Nūr al-Ḥasan
1880Arabic
al-Kāfiyah al-shāfiyah fī al-intiṣār lil-firqah al-nājiyah
Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīyah
1889Arabic
al-Qiyam al-ijtimāʻīyah lil-jamāʻāt al-arwāḥīyah fī Ifrīqiyā
Mahdī Sātī
2014Arabic
al-Risālah al-badīʻah al-rafīʻah fī al-radd ʻalá man ṭaghá fa-khālafa al-sharīʻah
Maḥmūd Muḥammad Khaṭṭāb
1895Arabic
al-Sanūsīyah fī ʻilm al-tawḥīd
Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf Sanūsī
1863Arabic
al-Ta’ammul al-Awwal (al-Thānī)
Robert Saint Southwell
1740Arabic
ha- Dat veha-Torah
Solomon Joseph Silberstein
1887Hebrew
Ærarium divini amoris locupletissimum
Giuseppe Mansi
1892Latin
Éléments de zoologie médicale
Alfred Moquin-Tandon
1860French