The past, to which all invented traditions must refer, is now the history of the song itself.

It is also a common custom to feed others in your group with your own hands - a tradition referred to as "gursha."

Historically, such a person was an older man, and the tradition refers to him as a nuuttipukki.

Prophetic traditions refers to any written or oral prophecies within a culture, usually of religious nature.

In the German musicology tradition referred to as functional harmony.

However, other cultural classical traditions may refer to oral transmission.

Other traditions refer to their taking up the occupation of printing clothes after the conversion of the community to Islam.

Western esoteric traditions sometimes refer to a mental body that exists on a plane other than the physical.

In such constructions tradition refers to specific values and materials particular to the discussed context, passed through generations.

In this context tradition refers to the mode of thinking and action justified as "it has always been that way".