sacred fire
Ritually tended blaze
Sacred fire is a flame maintained for religious or ceremonial purposes, treated as holy or spiritually significant.
Many traditions—from ancient Rome's Vestal flame to Native American rituals—keep fires burning as connections to the divine.
The phrase also describes intense devotion or passion: She approached her art with a sacred fire.
- Olympic flameCeremonial sports fire
- Olympic torchRelay-borne games fire
- eternal flameContinuously burning memorial light
- eternal lightUnending luminous presence
- ZoroastrianismAncient dualistic Persian religion
divine spark · flame · Vesta · embers · votive candle · Brigid · Zarathustra · ritual · incense burner · Agni · altar · sacrifice · hearth · purification · priest · burning · vigil · worship
- ZoroastrianismZoroaster, Zarathustra, Zoroastrianism, Amesha Spentas, dualism
- ancient religiongods, goddesses, pantheon, deity, polytheism
- CherokeeCherokee Nation, Cherokee syllabary, Sequoyah, Trail of Tears, clan mothers
- HinduismVishnu, Shiva, Krishna, Ganesh, Ganesha
- Indigenous cultureancestors, ancestry, ancestral lands, ancestral lineage, animal totems
- ancient forumsforum, agora, public square, stoa, colonnade
sacred firecooking fire
Flames for preparing food
trash fire · campfire · waste incineration · hearth fire · bonfire
sacred firehellfire
Eternal punishment by flame
wildfire · conflagration · inferno · holy water · the void