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
Legal protection of dogs from the increasing evil of dog stealers and receivers
1844
Lessons for Laura
1831
Letters on the existence and character of the Deity, and on the moral state of man.
1802
Lines on a dead puppy
1863
Marvels of pond-life, or, A year's microscopic recreations among the polyps, infusoria, rotifers, water-bears and polyzoa
Henry J. Slack
1897
Memorials of providence
1815
Natural history of animals
1800
Notes on some of the Cretaceous fossils collected during Captain Palliser's explorations in British North America in 1857-1860
Joseph Frederick Whiteaves
1895
Notice regarding the structure and mode of generation of the Virgularia mirabilis and Pennatula phosphorea
Robert Edmond Grant
1827
Observations on the character of God and Christ in a letter to a friend
1809
Observations on the regulations which have been made for preventing the spreading of the distemper among the cattle
1750
On "dyss" burial and beliefs about the dead during the stone age
Arvid Serner
1938
On dichotomous and quinary arrangements in natural history
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
1829
On divine Providence
1809
On some marine Invertebrata dredged or otherwise collected by Dr. G.M. Dawson, in 1885, on the coast of British Columbia
Joseph Frederick Whiteaves
1887
On the peace of God, which passeth all understanding
1857
On the progress and characteristics of ceremony
William Johnson Fox
1838
On the structure of the eye of the seal
Henry Wilson
1866
Panorama of animals
1854
Passing thoughts on man's relation to man
James Bovell
1862
Poems chiefly on the superstition of Obeah
1816
Prodromus faunæ zeylanicæ
E. F. Kelaart
1852
Proposals for publishing, by subscription, an interesting account of the origin of our national hymn or anthem, God save the King
1822
Queer people with wings and stings and their kweer kapers
Palmer Cox
1888