Invented Traditions
The pattern is not a debunking exercise applied from outside — it is simply the actual, named, dated history of several well-known modern traditions, including specific founders and specific founding documents in each case, openly acknowledged by the historical record itself.
Eric Hobsbawm & Terence Ranger, The Invention of Tradition (1983)
A scholarly framework for a documented pattern: modern movements deliberately constructing rituals and symbols they then present as ancient.