Chambers suggests that it hearkens back to druidic fire-worship.

Melville links this Persian religion to fire-worship.

Fire-worship: A central feature of PIE life was the domestic hearth.

The best-known derivative is the fire-worship of the ancient Iranian religion (see Zoroastrianism).

The Jatilas of Uruvela now flung their paraphernalia of fire-worship into the river and went to the Blessed One.

"Fire-Worship" (1843)

With his babbling of fire-worship and nature-worship, the Fireclown threatens to throw us all back to disorganized and retrogressive savagery!"

The religion of the ancient Croats also bore traces of its Iranian origin: a god of light and darkness, fire-worship, cremation of the dead, and so on.

A Parsee (a follower of Zoroastrianism, likened by Melville to fire-worship), Fedallah is so closely linked to Ahab that their shadows merge.

'Odd,' he remarked through teeth that still showed a tendency to chatter, 'odd that I should have to live to my present age before appreciating the underlying soundness of fire-worship.'

Soon came the elaborate rituals of Yajna (the sacrifice fire) and fire-worship: We won't perish, O fire, if you give us protection from perils and pestilences....

Instead, he was then granted another boon: he would never be won over in any battle, until his Yagna (fire-worship) of his native goddess Nikumbala was disturbed and destroyed.

"It was Rassen who on the Mountain supplanted the primeval fire-worship whereof the flaming pillars which light its Sanctuary remain as monuments, by that of Hes, or Isis, or rather blended the two in one.

This was the sum of it--From the beginning of the world, as he expressed it, that is, from thousands and thousands of years ago, this Mountain had been the home of a peculiar fire-worship, of which the head heirophant was a woman.

Fire, the most mysterious and impressive of the elements, the giver of light and of all the good things of life, is a thing sacred and adorable in primitive religions, and fire-worship still has its place in two at least of the great religions of the world.

Nadi Kassapa and Gaya Kassapa, brothers of the great Uruvela Kassapa, powerful men and chieftains among the people, were dwelling below on the stream, and when they saw the instruments used in fire-worship floating in the river, they said: "Something has happened to our brother."

Bahram said no more about fire worship, though he did not honor Allah either.

This word is related to the ancient rituals of fire worship among the Zoroastrians.

There is an element of mystery in fire, which at times has led to fire worship.

According to Martin, this faith is roughly based upon the fire worship of Zoroastrianism.

In 2010, he described the Olympic torch ceremony as a neo-pagan display of fire worship.

"Fire worship was by no means the most foolish thing ever invented," he murmured to himself at one point Otherwise neither of us said a word.

"Worse even than fire worship?"

A class that combines a hashisheen cult with the Arabic view of Zoroastrian fire worship, but one which isn't automatically evil.

Although fire worship continued to give the various factions a semblance of unity, the religion and its followers divided into sects which contended with one another.

In 2000, as part of another land art project about fire worship, Sabina made seven doors from fire, emulating an ancient Zoroastrian temple.

Fire worship in the old Slavic religion was mostly transformed into the cult of domestic fire, and thus joined with ancestor worship.

These altars suggest fire worship or worship of Agni, the Hindu god of fire.

Fire worship in Graeco-Roman tradition had two separate forms: fire of the hearth and fire of the forge.

The Universal Faith (English) - Importance of Fire Worship in all the world religions and civilisations.

Presently Sybil said, 'Daddy, are you and Mama expecting me to attend fire worship Friday?' '

Thus the Paracelsists and other fire believers sought, and as they believed found, high authority for continuing a part of the fire worship of the early tribes.

By the eighth century A.D., Islamic invaders swept in to convert the Zoroastrian populace (although secret fire worship continued to flourish).

Later, the book describes how Nimrod established fire worship and idolatry, then received instruction in divination for three years from Bouniter, the fourth son of Noah.

(The truth that I could not tell him was that I was so upset by witchcraft and fire worship that I had to leave.

Bryant suggests that the Rigveda represents a pastoral or nomadic, mobile culture, centered on the Indo-Iranian Soma cult and fire worship.

The construction of the chariots starts on Akshaya Trutiya, the third day of the bright fortnight of Vaisakha, with ritual fire worship.

Strong traces of a common Indo-Iranian religion remain visible, especially in the Soma cult and the fire worship, both of which are preserved in Zoroastrianism.

Further Agni was the God of Fire and Fire worship was widely practiced in the ancient Asia including Babylon, Egypt and India.

This place is of historic importance, it has been noted by locals that many artefacts, fire altars and earthen ware used for Yagna / fire worship have been found.

CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Fire worship.