ritual fire
Sacred burning flames
A ritual fire is a fire kindled as part of a religious ceremony, spiritual practice, or traditional observance.
Such fires appear across cultures—from Hindu cremation pyres to Catholic Easter vigils to pagan solstice celebrations.
The fire itself becomes sacred, serving as offering, purification, or communication with the divine: The shaman tended the ritual fire through the night.
- altarSacred ritual table
- blazeIntense burning fire
- sacred flamePerpetual religious fire
- ZoroastrianFollower of ancient Persian faith
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
holy smoke · offering · flame · vestal · solstice · eternal flame · summer solstice · purification · consecration · pyre · Agni · transformation · burning · Beltane · divination · invocation · torch · wood
- ancient religiongods, goddesses, pantheon, deity, polytheism
- Vedic ritualsoblation, sacred vessel, libations, sacrificial rites, mantras
- cremationcrematorium, crematory, ashes, retort, pyre
- eternal flamesmemorial flame, Olympic flame
- Slavic folkloreBaba Yaga, vampire, Ivan, mora, Firebird
- Fire Temples
ritual firewildfire
Uncontrolled vegetation blaze
house fire · spontaneous combustion · electrical fire · arson · forest fire
ritual firecooking fire
Flames for preparing food
furnace · incinerator · campfire · bonfire · cremation
ritual fireholy water
Sacramental liquid for blessings
sacred spring · ceremonial washing · libation · baptismal water · ritual bath