Sacredfire or holy fire may refer to: Any instance of fire worship, or the use of fires in religious ritual Yajna, Hindu rituals and sacrifices performed...
The sacredfire of Vesta was a sacred eternal flame in ancient Rome. The Vestal Virgins, originally numbering two, later four, and eventually six, were...
as having been designed by the cosmos and considered as a "sacred oneness witnessed by fire itself." Hindu families have traditionally been patrilocal...
offering', IAST: yajña) in Hinduism refers to any ritual done in front of a sacredfire, often with mantras. Yajna has been a Vedic tradition, described in a...
The sacredfire is installed in the temple behind an amber tinted glass enclosure. Only Zoroastrians are allowed to go to the sanctum area of the fire. Non-Zoroastrians...
Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places, anthropologist Peter Nabokov writes: "Fire was the medium of transformation, turning offerings...
supervise Vesta's sacred hearth so that at least one Vestal was stationed there at all times. Vestals who allowed the sacredfire to go out were punished...
nature of the technical terms for a fire temple) that the principal purpose of a fire temple is to house a sacredfire, and not to glorify what is otherwise...
off some sort of sacredfire. From the 7th to the 16th centuries, a burning glass was used by Christians to set off the Easter Fire during the Easter...
Praurimė, goddess of the sacredfire served by her priestesses, the vaidilutės Trotytojas Kibirkščių, deity of sparks and fires Glöð, jötunn who is the...
The Sacred Heart Fires are a fire rite that originated in Tyrol in the 18th century. The fires are still lit in several parts of the Tyrol and Trentino...
innovation that supplanted the tradition of circumabulating around the sacredfire (havan) in the early twentieth century. The Anand ceremony was originally...
region. Vows made in the presence of the sacredfire are considered unbreakable, with Agnideva (lit. God/Lord of Fire; c.f. Latin cognates: ignis+deus) held...
The Sacredfire of Vesta in Ancient Rome, which burned within the Temple of Vesta on the Roman Forum, was extinguished in 394 AD. The sacredfire of the...
Tim Armstrong, lead singer of American punk band Rancid, on the EP The SacredFire and the full-length album Rebirth. Rebirth won a Grammy Award for Best...
the Olympic flame was derived from ancient Greek ceremonies where a sacredfire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics on...
two great fires in Pars and Media—the Adur Farnbag and Adur Gushnasp respectively—were promoted to rival, and even eclipse, the sacredfire in Parthia...
Parikrama is also done around the sacred Peepal tree, tulsi (Indian basil plant), and agni (sacredfire or the fire God), and agni parikrama is a part...
practices of a variety of cultures. A firekeeper or flametender tends the sacredfire in the manner specific to the religious traditions of that culture. In...
is a sacredfire housed in a temple in Udvada, Valsad district, Gujarat on the west coast of India. The Atash Bahram, meaning "Victorious Fire", is the...
kanyadaan that the pheras begin. The pheras take place in front of the sacredfire, agni. After this the groom applies Sindoor (vermilion) to the girl's...
Religion portal Di Penates 46 Hestia, asteroid named after the goddess Sacredfire of Vesta Vitex agnus-castus Zalmoxis Estia, daily broadsheet newspaper...