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Ritual fire used in a Hindu ceremonial setting

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Why Did Fire Become Sacred Across Human Cultures?

Fire became sacred across civilizations because it is useful, dangerous, transformative and socially central. Vedic, Zoroastrian and Mediterranean traditions turned the same physical phenomenon into very different theologies.