sacrificial fire
Sacred burning offering
A sacrificial fire is a fire in which offerings are burned as part of religious ritual.
The practice appears across many traditions—Hindu fire ceremonies (yajna), ancient Greek burnt offerings, biblical holocausts.
The fire transforms the offering, sending it symbolically to the divine realm: The priest tended the sacrificial fire throughout the night.
- AgniVedic flame deity
- offeringSomething presented or given
- ashCombustion's powdery remains
- ZoroastrianismAncient dualistic Persian religion
- smokeAirborne combustion byproduct
altar · pyre · flame · ancestor worship · holy smoke · wood · immolation · ritual · transformation · purification · consecration · heat · kindling · ceremony · festival · blaze · renewal · destruction
- sacred fireritual burning, burnt offering, agni, Zoroastrianism, Vesta
- Vedic ritualsoblation, libations, mantras, Vedas, libation
sacrificial firecooking fire
Flames for preparing food
campfire · hearth fire · signal fire · wildfire · kiln
sacrificial firedivine blessing
Sacred favor from deity
benediction · theophany · divine revelation · answered prayer
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