The phrase "ancient cults" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing historical religious groups or practices that are considered to be from a long time ago.
Example: "The archaeologist uncovered artifacts that suggested the existence of ancient cults dedicated to fertility rituals."
Alternatives: "old religious sects" or "historical cults".
There are the fertility goddesses from the ancient cults in Egypt and Babylonia and the earth mother of Asia Minor, worshipped under varying names and guises.
It's more akin to something like a Sax Rohmer potboiler: all foggy streets, ancient cults, arcane symbols, gangs of one-eyed crooks, paranormal investigators and racism.
The oldest native ritual tradition, Shinto, was, like most ancient cults, a form of nature worship, to do with fertility, mother goddesses, and so forth.
The legendary appeal of a tropical archipelago soaked in the myths of ancient cults and audacious tales of 18th Century British navy mutineers has made French Polynesia one of the South Pacific's most mesmerising destinations.
But Balpinar cites a total of 14 kinds of kilim motifs woven today that she believes can be traced back to ancient cults in Anatolia, the rectangle of Asia Minor that is now Turkey.
Seven-thousand-year-old Saharan cave paintings suggest ancient cults worshiped them; the Aztecs carried out healings with them; the Vikings made war with them; even Jesus, some claim, was actually just a magic mushroom in disguise.
A routine obituary assignment leads him dangerously close to an ancient cult willing to murder to stay secret.
The ancient society, represented by the so called Ancient Cult (or moai cult) was centered on the Rano Raraku crater, to the east of the island, whose soft volcanic rocks (tuff) where suitable for moai carving.
The shift from the rigid socio-political organization of the Ancient Cult to the more flexible system characteristic of the Birdman Cult could be viewed as a cultural adaptation to changing environmental conditions.
The rebels' journey to crack the code grappling with an ancient cult, using secret passwords and hidden doorways will excite anyone's inner child.But this is no fantasy yarn.
And what unfolds is compelling stuff, on one level a Boy's Own romp of derring-do, on another an appalling exposé of where the ancient cult of manly courage goes when it is tooled up with high explosives.
