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Hellenic religion

Cup appears in Hellenic religion.
Pausanias names cups among ordinary drinking vessels dedicated beside kylikes and kantharoi. A named cup in that periegesis, not kylix as the flat Greek cup already walked and not a modern mug dump.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Cup is used in Libation.
The Iliad seats cups in σπονδή speech when heroes and elders pour wine to the gods before counsel, embassies, and oaths. A named cup used in Homeric libation, not Nestor’s dove-handled cup as identity and not a later kiddush cup.
from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)
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Cup is used in Hellenic religion.
The Iliad seats ordinary cups in drinking, guest-gift, and camp fellowship beside the named Nestor cup. A named Homeric cup in hospitality use, not nestor-cup as identity and not cup-libation-iliad alone.
from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)
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Norse tradition

Cup appears in Norse tradition.
Eddic feast and wisdom poems in the Poetic Edda name cups among drinking speech of hall and counsel. A named cup in that corpus, not a grail dump and not every horn flatten without a horn entity.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Vedic tradition

Cup is used in Offerings.
The Ṛgveda names offering-cups (camasa and kindred) among the vessels that hold the pressed drink for the gods. A named Vedic ritual use of the cup, not a grail dump and not Pausanias’s Greek cup alone.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Cup appears in Vedic tradition.
The Ṛgveda names the drinking-cup (camasa and kindred) among soma and gift-vessel speech. A named Vedic cup in that corpus, not only the already-filed used_in→offerings job and not a grail dump.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Roman religion

Cup appears in Roman religion.
Virgil’s Aeneid seats cups among libation and banquet speech — wine poured in ritual and feast from Troy to Latium. A named cup in that epic, not krater as the mixing-bowl and not a modern glass dump.
from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)
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Nahua tradition

Cup appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex seats drinking cups and bowls among cacao, feast, and household vessel speech. A named cup in that ethnography, not olla as the cooking jar beside it and not a Greek kylix dump.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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Celtic tradition

Cup appears in Celtic tradition.
The Mabinogion’s feast scenes — Branwen’s court, Pwyll’s halls, and neighboring branches — seat cups among the drinking-gear of Welsh prose hospitality. A named cup in that collection, not the Grail dump and not cauldron as the rebirth-vessel already walked.
from Anonymous (Welsh prose); Sioned Davies (translation) · The Mabinogion, medieval Welsh manuscripts; Davies trans. 2007
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Cup appears in Annwn.
The Mabinogion’s First Branch seats cups among the feast-gear of Arawn’s otherworld court during Pwyll’s year in Annwn. A named cup in that Annwn hospitality, not Pair Dadeni as the rebirth-cauldron and not the Grail dump.
from Anonymous (Welsh prose); Sioned Davies (translation) · The Mabinogion, medieval Welsh manuscripts; Davies trans. 2007
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Cup is used in Wedding.
Culhwch and Olwen in the Mabinogion seats drinking-cups among the feast-gear of the marriage quest’s close — wedding hospitality in that Welsh prose. A cup used in that wedding feast, not a sacred_to deity mint and not the Grail as a quest-object.
from Anonymous (Welsh prose); Sioned Davies (translation) · The Mabinogion, medieval Welsh manuscripts; Davies trans. 2007
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Shinto

Cup appears in Shinto.
The Kojiki seats drinking vessels among the eight-fold sake prepared for the Yamata serpent feast and among other hospitality gear. A named cup in that compilation, not the Grail and not cauldron as a Celtic rebirth-vessel dump.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Cup appears in Kojiki.
Philippi’s Kojiki attests sake vessels of the Yamata feast inside the compiled narrative. A cup inside that text hub, not a chalice dump.
from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968
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Buddhist traditions

Cup appears in Buddhist traditions.
Watson’s Lotus Sūtra seats drinking and offering cups among the vessels of assembly feast and honor speech. A named cup in that sūtra, not a grail dump and not kapala as a skull-cup.
from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older
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Mesopotamian tradition

Cup appears in Mesopotamian tradition.
The Epic of Gilgamesh seats cups among Siduri the ale-wife’s drinking gear and the feast vessels of Uruk. A named cup in that epic, not chalice as a later cult-cup type-name and not cauldron as the large cooking vessel alone.
from Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 1200 BCE (this recension)
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Northwest Coast tradition

Cup appears in Northwest Coast tradition.
Swanton’s Tlingit narratives seat drinking and feast cups among hospitality and story meals of that coast. A named cup in that ethnography, not olla as Iberian/New-World pot speech and not a grail dump.
from John R. Swanton · Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909
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Yoruba Ifá

Cup is used in Yoruba Ifá.
Bascom’s apparatus chapter seats the carved wooden (and brass) divining cup — agere Ifá / ajele Ifá — as the vessel that holds the palm nuts for Ifá. A named cup instrument of that ethnography’s Ifá, not the divining bowl alone and not a grail dump.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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Cup is used in Divination.
Bascom seats the agere Ifá cup as the container that holds the palm nuts through the morning invocation and cast — vessel furniture of that divination craft. A named cup use in divination in that ethnography, not used_in→yoruba-ifa alone and not a libation-grail dump.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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Cup is historically related to Opon Ifá.
Bascom’s morning invocation seats the divining cup on and beside the tray — nuts raised from the cup, powder on the board — as paired apparatus of one session. A named cup–tray neighborhood in that ethnography, not identity of vessel and board and not the bowl as a missing id.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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Brass is historically related to Cup.
Bascom’s apparatus plates include a brass divining cup cast by lost wax among the agere Ifá vessels that hold the nuts. A named brass–cup meeting in that ethnography, not wooden cups alone and not bronze flatten.
from William Bascom · Ifa Divination, 1969
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sources

Description of Greece · Pausanias
Pausanias, Description of Greece.
Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.
The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)
Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.
Aeneid · Virgil
Virgil, Aeneid.
Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).
The Mabinogion · Anonymous (Welsh prose); Sioned Davies (translation)
The Mabinogion, trans. Sioned Davies.
Kojiki · Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation)
Donald L. Philippi, Kojiki.
The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)
Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.
Iliad · Homer
Homer, Iliad.
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh, Standard Babylonian version (flood tablet; underworld material).
Tlingit Myths and Texts · John R. Swanton
John R. Swanton, Tlingit Myths and Texts, BAE Bulletin 39 (1909).
Ifa Divination · William Bascom
William Bascom, Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa.
Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art · Louisa Twining
Louisa Twining, Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art.
Book of Household Management · Isabella Beeton
Isabella Beeton, Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861).
A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · Richard Watson
Richard Watson, A Biblical and Theological Dictionary.
On Divers Arts · Theophilus Presbyter
Theophilus, On Divers Arts (De diversis artibus / Schedula diversarum artium).