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
Abbregé du thresor des ceremonies ecclesiastiques du R.P. Gavantus
Bartolommeo Gavanti
1651French
Abhandlung über die Unmöglichkeit eines Beweises vom Daseyn Gottes aus blosser Vernunft
1791German
Alexandri de Hales Summae theologiae pars prima
Alexander of Hales
1575Latin
Antwort an einen Freund
1703German
Antwort auf Herr Johann Daniel Scheffels ... Vermeinte Wiederlegung des doppelten Send-Schreibens an Herrn D. Johann Dieterich Winckler ...
1745German
Asmāʼ al-ḥusná
1874Arabic
Besi︠e︡da o sushchestvovanīi T︠S︡erkvi do kont︠s︡a mīra
1843Russian
Bo re shou hu shi liu shan shen wang xing ti
1655Chinese
Bog ̋est ́li︠u︡bov.́
1877Russian
Ceremonial Patterns in the Greater Southwest; Factionalism in Isleta Pueblo
David David Heath French, Ruth Underhill
1948
Chi feng da wang jiang ju zhuan
1881Chinese
Claviculae salomonis & theosophia pneumatica, das ist, Die warhafftige Erkänntnüss Gottes und seiner sichtigen und unsichtigen Geschöpffen, die heil. Geist-Kunst genannt
1686Latin
Coemeteria sacra Henrici Spondani Appamiarum Galliae Narbonensis Episcopi
Henry de Sponde
1638Latin
Corn. ab Hogelande Cogitationes, quibus dei existentia
Cornelius ab Hogelande
1646Latin
Critik des Begriffes von der Gerechtigkeit Gottes
1817German
Cérémonial de l'empire français
1805French
Da Qing tong li pin guan shi shu ren sang li zhuan
1885Chinese
Da hun li jie quan yi
1888Chinese
Daihannya kōshiki
1893Japanese
Das Deutsche Cantoner abc-buechlein, oder, Erstes Buch fuer Kinder welch anfangen zu lernen
1839German
De antiquis ecclesiæ ritibus libri
Edmond Martène
1736Latin
De operationibus divinis
Francesco Satolli
1885Latin
Death and Burial in Christian Antiquity
Alfred Alfred Clement Rush
1941
Dei basilischi, dragoni, ed altri animali creduti favolosi
Luigi Bossi
1792Latin