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
Prevention of cruelty to animals.
1897
Prevention of cruelty to children or animals in the District of Columbia
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia
1892
Prince Vance
Eleanor Putnam
1888
Protest against the passage of Senate bill 1063.
1898
Puff
Katharine S. Macquoid
1888
Puss-cat Mew
Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne
1869
Pussy's queer babies
W. H. Shelton
1887
Queer people with paws and claws and their kweer kapers
Palmer Cox
1888
Ragged Robin
Mary E. Ropes
1888
Rambles after land shells
H. F. Parker
1863
Red snow and other parables from nature
Margaret Gatty
1862
Religious ceremonies and customs
1840
Religious reliques. Or, the sale at the Savoy
1688
Reminiscences of a raven
James Greenwood
1866
Reports of agents, officers, and persons, acting under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the condition of seal life on the rookeries of the Pribilof Islands, and to pelagic sealing in Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, in the years 1893-1895.
1894
Reynard the Fox, the crafty courtier
Samuel Phillips Day
1887
Reynard the fox
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1860
Richard and Rover
American Sunday-School Union. Committee of Publication
1846
Robin's recruit
A. G. Plympton
1893
Robinson Crusoe's farmyard, or, Stories and anecdotes of animals
Susan Warner
1866
Rollo learning to talk
Jacob Abbott
1841
Rome's downfal
1688
Rose and her pets
S. E. Dawes
1869
Rosebud's pictures and stories
John Uncle
1879