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
The white dove
Christoph von Schmid
1871
The wild man of the West
Robert Michael Ballantyne, Porter & Coates, Pa.) Caxton Press (Philadelphia, Dalziel Brothers
1875
The wild pigs
Gerald Young
1892
The winter holidays
Amerel
1850
The wolf
Madeline Leslie
1864
The wonderful deliverance at sea or, The miraculous preservation of several persons belonging to the ship called William and Dorothy
1675
The works of Thomas Bewick
Thomas Bewick, John Bewick, Aesop
1790
The world turn'd upside down, or The wonderful magic lantern
Ann Taylor
1811
The wreck of the circus
Jr James Otis, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, C.J. Peters & Son
1897
The young angler
Thomas Miller
1870
The young exiles, or, The wild tribes of the north
Anne Bowman
1858
The young naturalist, a new history of foreign and British beasts
Isaac Marsden
1815
The young pioneers of the North-west
C. H. Pearson
1870
The young yägers, or, A narrative of hunting adventures in southern Africa
Mayne Reid
1858
The youth's natural history of animals
Mahlon Day
1829
The youth's natural history of animals
Atwood & Brown
1837
The zoo
Theodore Wood
1895
There was a little girl
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1883
This horyble monster is cast of a sowe in Eestlande in Pruse two myle from Runyngbergh in a vyllage which is called lebe[n]hayn
1531
Thoughts concerning the nature of God, as displayed in the Gospel.
1794
Three cents, or, Lettie's way of doing good
Mary J. Hildeburn
1868
Three little crackers from down in Dixie
Will Allen Dromgoole
1898
Three little lovers of nature
Ella Reeve Bloor
1895
Three practical discourses.
1719