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
Routledge's British primer
Harrison Weir
1888
Routledge's nursery picture book
Harrison Weir
1862
Rover and his friends
Harrison Weir, Edith Carrington
1897
Rover and his friends
E. Whimper
1859
Sally Williams, the mountain girl
Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney
1873
Sanders' pictorial primer, or, An introduction to "Sanders' first reader"
Charles W Sanders
1846
Santa Claus' surprise
Closson
1893
Scripture natural history
John Rev Young
1850
Scripture natural history
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
1861
Sea, land, and river shells
Abby A. Tenney
1870
Sea-stars, jelly-fishes, sea-anemones, and corals
Abby A. Tenney
1870
Seas, ships, and adventures
R. Yorke Clarke & Co
1850
Secondary lessons, or, The improved reader
A friend of youth
1834
Select and amusing anecdotes of animals
Sidney Babcock
1841
Select anecdotes of animals
John Lauris Blake
1828
Select fables from Æsop, and others
Thomas Bewick
1852
Select passages illustrating Mithraism
1925
Sermons on some of the distinguishing doctrines of divine revelation
1814
Services, and hymns of experience and hope.
1888
Shadows on the screen, or, An evening with the children
George Mrs Cupples
1883
Short stories about animals
Gertrude Sellon
1892
Sights at a peep-show, or, Pretty pictures and pleasing stories
George Mrs Cupples
1874
Silver moon stories, for our little pets
Hector Giacomelli
1885
Sir Jasper Carew
Charles James Lever
1870Dutch