ceremonial fire
Sacred burning flames
A ceremonial fire is a fire lit for ritual, symbolic, or commemorative purposes rather than practical ones like cooking or warmth.
Such fires appear across cultures in religious rites, memorial services, and community gatherings: The Olympic torch lights a ceremonial fire at each games, They built a ceremonial fire for the solstice celebration.
- pyreFuneral burning heap
- funeral pyreOutdoor body-burning structure
- flameBurning gas made visible
- blazeIntense burning fire
- eternal flameContinuously burning memorial light
hearth · sacred flame · vestal · torch bearer · cremation · Agni · Zoroastrian · Olympic torch · burning · ancestors · incense · Beltane · Guy Fawkes · kindling · holy smoke · smoke · ember · ashes
- fireflame, blaze, flames, inferno, embers
- eternal flamesmemorial flame, Olympic flame
- torch ceremoniesOlympic torch relay, torch passing, torch parade, torch procession, torch lighting
- Hindu ritesdiksha, puja, aarti, religious vows, parampara
ceremonial firecooking fire
Flames for preparing food
campfire · trash fire · signal fire · bonfire · brush burning
ceremonial firewildfire
Uncontrolled vegetation blaze
house fire · electrical fire · conflagration · forest fire · spontaneous combustion