Subsequent analyses criticized its cultural inappropriateness, as well as its linguistic and archeaoastronomical claims, to describe it as an example of "cult archaeology".
The show's final sections include many other examples of hero-cult activity, mainly small votives and large reliefs that were placed at tombs or shrines.
The best known examples of Cargo Cults come from some Pacific islands during World War II.
Following in a long line of musicians and actors who have been drawn to the ultimate example of the cult of personality, Dépardieu and Steven Seagal have revelled recently in their new buddy, Vladimir Putin.
But it is only one example of the cult of personality around John Paul II, who was an actor before he became a priest, and who knows better than almost anyone how to captivate an audience.
Never has there been a more pure and banal example of the cult of the individual: a Premier League in which everything is measured by money and the success that that money has bought, and the money that that success will then generate: the supreme hydra-headed monster.
Academic Emma Pett identifies Back to the Future (1985) as another example of a cult blockbuster.
That work addresses growing up in a religious group, referred to by popular media as a primary example of a cult, as well the internal journey that I've had to go on in order to claim my identity and femininity since leaving.
In the provinces, there are isolated examples of a personality cult that has gone way over the top, such as the setting up of shrines in places the president has visited.
What are pilgrimage sites like Graceland in Memphis, with its Elvis memorabilia, or object-oriented devotional events like the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis auction at Sotheby's if not contemporary examples of a relic cult in action?
