cultus

noun /ˈkʌl.təs/

1. Established or accepted religious rites or customs of worship; state of religious development.

   Among the rituals which members of their family had inaugurated in other states of Greece, was a peculiar cultus of Hermes (Mercury) at Stymphalus in Arcadia.

Where it comes from

From Latin cultus (“cultivation, culture”). See cult.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry cultus (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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