ritual burning
Sacred fire offering
Ritual burning is the ceremonial destruction of objects by fire, typically for symbolic, religious, or political purposes.
Book burnings destroy ideas deemed dangerous.
Flag burnings protest governments.
Burning effigies expresses contempt for public figures.
Religious traditions may burn offerings, sacred texts past their usefulness, or items representing what practitioners wish to release: The ritual burning of last year's failures.
- pyreFuneral burning heap
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- cremationBurning the deceased
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
- sage smudgingBurning herbs for purification
bonfire · fire pit · ashes · smoke · holy smoke · flames · ceremony · fire ceremony · offering · wicker man · sacred · sacred fire · altar · effigy · purification · smoldering · kindle · immolation
- sacred firesacred flame, sacred fire, fire worship, fire ceremony, fire keeper
- Neolithic Balkanstells, Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Moldavia
- offeringsaltar offerings, sin offering, peace offering, oblations, food offerings
ritual burningwildfire
Uncontrolled vegetation blaze
spontaneous combustion · arson · electrical fire · house fire
ritual burningpreservation
Maintaining something's condition
consecration · enshrinement · mummification · embalming · conservation
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