ancient traditions
Long-practiced cultural rituals
Ancient traditions are customs, practices, or beliefs passed down through many generations from the distant past.
The phrase often carries weight—invoking continuity with ancestors or cultural authenticity: The ceremony follows ancient traditions dating back centuries.
Sometimes used loosely or ironically for things not particularly old: It's an ancient tradition in this office to bring donuts on Fridays.
- totemsSpiritual clan symbols
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- folk talesTraditional stories of communities
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- ceremoniesFormal observances with ritual
storytelling · customs · sacred rituals · oral history · sacred texts · mythology · ancestral worship · spirit world · elders · herbal medicine · traditional crafts · ancestral lands · blood ties · epic poetry · pilgrimage · holy sites · cosmology · rites of passage
- dreamsnightmare, dreaming, daydream, nightmares, dreams
ancient traditionsrevolutionary ideas
Concepts demanding fundamental change
ancient traditionsmodernization
Adoption of current methods
social upheaval · radical change · futurism · iconoclasm · tabula rasa