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Noun
fire-worship (uncountable)
- The worship of fire or of a fire god or goddess.
2001 -, Edwin Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture, →ISBN:They pour no milky draughts, they heat no cauldron. They give no gifts to the Brāhmana.... Their worship was but enchantment, sorcery, unlike the sacred law of fire-worship, wiles and magic.
2015, Christopher Dresser, Japan, →ISBN, page 327:I do not for one moment say that all conventional ornamental forms have sprung from fire-worship, for this is not the case; but I do assert that all my researches have led me to the conclusion that most Indian and some forms of European ornament, as well as forms which are in common use in Persia, Arabia, and Japan, are due to the influence of this early religion.
2016, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture, →ISBN, page 277:Fire-worship brings into view again, though under different aspects and with different results, the problems presented by water-worship.
Translations
the worship of fire or of a fire god or goddess