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
Bob, the spotted terrier; or, Memoirs of the dog of knowledge
Author of Dick the little poney
1815
Book about animals
Rufus Merrill
1850
Boys' book of adventures
E. T. Roe
1891
Boys' life of Audubon, the naturalist of the New World
Horace Mrs John
1856
Brother Bertie and his friends in the fields and flower-beds
Author of Under the lime-trees
1868
Brothers of pity
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
1895
By sea-shore, wood and moorland
Edward Step
1891
Camping out
C. A Stephens
1872
Captain Wolf
Ernest Henry Griset, Émile Antoine Bayard
1870
Captured by Zulus
Harry Prentice
1890
Carol's gift, or, What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee
Jennie Chappell
1890
Cassell's natural history
1883
Cat and dog, or, Memoirs of Puss and the Captain : a story founded on fact
Julia Charlotte Maitland
1854
Cat stories
Helen Hunt Jackson
1879
Catalogue (with descriptive notes and 23 illustrations) of the loan collection of paintings in oil and water-colours by modern English animal painters.
1892
Cats and dogs
Harriet Myrtle
1868
Cats and dogs, or, Notes and anecdotes of two great families of the animal kingdom
Harriet Myrtle
1869
Certein places gathered out of .S. Austens boke intituled de essentia diuinitatis
1548
Charley's Calico Rooster
Carrie L. May
1869
Charlie Seymour, or, The good and bad choice
Catherine Sinclair
1856
Charming talks about people and places
Lida Brooks Miller
1897
Chatterbox album of animals
Margaret Vandegrift
1880
Chatterbox circus
Laurence H. Francis, Harrison Weir
1893
Chatterbox wild West
Laurence H. Francis, Harrison Weir
1896