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
A general epistle of universal love and good will
Ambrose Rigge
1698
A history of wonderful animals
1818
A literary curiosity
J. Gill
1871
A tender and unfeigned salutation of love and good-will to professors, or, A tender invitation and call unto all people in whose hearts there hath been, and still is, some true desiring and breathing after the Lord God ...
William Bennit
1664
A tossed ship making to safe harbor, or, A word in season to a sinking kingdome
Samuel Bolton
1644
A treatise of the divine essence and attribvtes.
Thomas Jackson
1628
A vvay to the tree of life
John White
1647
Agricultural physiology, animal and vegetable.
T. Lindley Kemp
1850
Alaska seal fisheries.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
1888
An Address from earth to heaven, or, A defensative against the portentous significations of the late comets and blazing-stars
1681
An Alphabet of quadrupeds
1852
An Ode on the comet
1811
An account of the deep-sea Brachyura collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship "Investigator".
Alfred William Alcock
1899
An appeal to the reverend clergymen of the United States on behalf of the primal law of God for mankind
1873
An enquiry into the nature, necessity, and evidence of Christian faith, in several essays
John Cockburn
1699
An enquiry into the nature, necessity, and evidence of Christian faith.
John Cockburn
1696
An essay on the world
1786
Animal worship in the Mycenaean age
Arthur Bernard Cook
1894
Animals in costume
1800
Animism in Senegal
Darius Karácsony
2010
Another switch for the Parson
William Eusebius Andrews
1823
Application of NMR Techniques on the Body Composition of Live Animals
1899
Bear stories
Ernest Ingersoll
1884
Blazing stars, the messengers of God's wrath.
1769