Karukultus

Bear worship - religious practice in North Eurasian ethnic religions. Article “Karukultus” in Estonian Wikipedia has 59.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 31 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.11 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Estonian) language version.

Since the creation of article “Karukultus”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Estonian Wikipedia and edited by 300 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Estonian Wikipedia and cited 601 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Estonian): #35 in December 2025
• Global: #44434 in June 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Estonian): #11435 in June 2026
• Global: #221227 in June 2022

There are 16 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Bear worship		81.1386
2	Catalan (ca) Adoració de l'os		73.914
3	Estonian (et) Karukultus		59.0707
4	Spanish (es) Culto a los osos		46.4965
5	Portuguese (pt) Culto ao urso		44.2648
6	Arabic (ar) عبادة الدب		32.2918
7	Chinese (zh) 熊崇拜		30.1813
8	German (de) Bärenkult		29.0326
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tục thờ gấu		27.2631
10	Persian (fa) خرس‌پرستی		24.3915

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Karukultus" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bear worship		824 541
2	Russian (ru) Культ медведя		112 609
3	German (de) Bärenkult		105 653
4	Finnish (fi) Karhunpalvonta		50 365
5	French (fr) Culte de l'ours		48 165
6	Spanish (es) Culto a los osos		18 883
7	Chinese (zh) 熊崇拜		10 880
8	Simple English (simple) Bear worship		5 608
9	Hungarian (hu) Medvekultusz		4 371
10	Arabic (ar) عبادة الدب		3 159

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Karukultus" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bear worship		3 431
2	Russian (ru) Культ медведя		606
3	German (de) Bärenkult		296
4	Chinese (zh) 熊崇拜		260
5	Finnish (fi) Karhunpalvonta		154
6	Persian (fa) خرس‌پرستی		132
7	French (fr) Culte de l'ours		123
8	Spanish (es) Culto a los osos		86
9	Estonian (et) Karukultus		77
10	Portuguese (pt) Culto ao urso		26

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Karukultus" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bear worship		132
2	German (de) Bärenkult		49
3	French (fr) Culte de l'ours		31
4	Finnish (fi) Karhunpalvonta		17
5	Russian (ru) Культ медведя		15
6	Simple English (simple) Bear worship		10
7	Catalan (ca) Adoració de l'os		9
8	Hungarian (hu) Medvekultusz		7
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tục thờ gấu		6
10	Chinese (zh) 熊崇拜		6

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Karukultus" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bear worship		2
2	Catalan (ca) Adoració de l'os		1
3	Arabic (ar) عبادة الدب		0
4	German (de) Bärenkult		0
5	Spanish (es) Culto a los osos		0
6	Estonian (et) Karukultus		0
7	Persian (fa) خرس‌پرستی		0
8	Finnish (fi) Karhunpalvonta		0
9	French (fr) Culte de l'ours		0
10	Galician (gl) Adoración do oso		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Karukultus" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Vietnamese (vi) Tục thờ gấu		243
2	English (en) Bear worship		146
3	German (de) Bärenkult		59
4	French (fr) Culte de l'ours		58
5	Russian (ru) Культ медведя		29
6	Catalan (ca) Adoració de l'os		16
7	Finnish (fi) Karhunpalvonta		11
8	Spanish (es) Culto a los osos		7
9	Chinese (zh) 熊崇拜		7
10	Persian (fa) خرس‌پرستی		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic عبادة الدب
ca	Catalan Adoració de l'os
de	German Bärenkult
en	English Bear worship
es	Spanish Culto a los osos
et	Estonian Karukultus
fa	Persian خرس‌پرستی
fi	Finnish Karhunpalvonta
fr	French Culte de l'ours
gl	Galician Adoración do oso
hu	Hungarian Medvekultusz
pt	Portuguese Culto ao urso
ru	Russian Культ медведя
simple	Simple English Bear worship
vi	Vietnamese Tục thờ gấu
zh	Chinese 熊崇拜

Best Rank

Estonian: #11435 06.2026

Global: #221227 06.2022

Best Rank

Estonian: #35 12.2025

Global: #44434 06.2022

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