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
Proclus the Neoplatonic Philosopher
Thomas Taylor
1981
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Όρνιθες
447? BCE-386? BCE Aristophanes, Polyvios Demetrakopoulos
Date unknownGreek
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Mores, leges, et ritus omnium gentium , per Joannem Boëmum,... ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus collecti
Damião de Goes, Johann Boemus
1561Latin
The Temple
Alfred Edersheim
1874
Meditationes de prima philosophia
René Descartes
1642
Works and Days
Hesiod
1559
Drawing down the Moon
Margot Adler
1979
Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy
Robert Hewitt Brown
1882
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett, Laura Ellen Anderson
2001
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
1976
The sign language of the mysteries
J. S. M. Ward
1928
Bleachers
John Grisham
2003
Die Haarteppichknüpfer
Andreas Eschbach
1995
Totems
Brad Steiger
1997
Conversations with God, Book 1 Guidebook
Neale Donald Walsch
1997
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Daniel, seu Verus Dei cultus in Oriente restitutus . Tragoedia, dabitur in regio Ludovici Magni collegio apud patres Societatis Jesu, ad solennem praemiorum distributionem, rege agonotheta. Die Mercurii 3. Augusti hora ipsa meridiana
Gabriel-François Le Jay, Jean-Antoine Du Cerceau
1701Latin
Health and welfare of captive reptiles
Clifford Warwick, James B Murphy
1899
The Neo Platonists a Study in the History of Hellenism
Thomas Whittaker
1961
A community of witches
Helen A. Berger
1998
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
1967
Nature Religion Today
Joanne Pearson
1998
Never Cry Wolf
Farley Mowat
1963
Magical Rites From The Crystal Well (Llewellyn's Practical Magick)
Ed Fitch
1971
Osiris
Bojana Mojsov
2005