Sacred fire

Sacred fire or holy fire may refer to:

Religion

• Any instance of fire worship, or the use of fires in religious ritual
• Yajna, Hindu rituals and sacrifices performed at a fire
  • Homa (ritual), general term for South Asian fire rituals
  • Vedi (altar), altar for fire rituals in Vedic religion
• The Sacred fire of Vesta in ancient Roman religion
• Holy Fire, a concept in Orthodox Christianity
• The sacred fire in Solomon's Temple
• The sacramental Easter Fire
• Fire personified as a deity in Indo-European religion:
  • Atar in Zoroastrianism
  • Agni in Hinduism
• Eternal flame modern flames kept permanently alight, on memorials etc.

Entertainment

Books

• Sacred Fire (novel), a 2003 Dragonlance novel by Chris Pierson
• Holy Fire (novel), a 1996 novel by Bruce Sterling

Music

• Sacred Fire, a 2011 album by Jimmy Cliff
• Sacred Fire: Live in South America, a 1993 album by Santana
• Holy Fire (album), an album by Foals released in 2013
• The Holy Fire, an American indie rock band
  • The Holy Fire (EP), an EP by the eponymous band released in 2004

Other uses

• Various diseases all also referred to as St. Anthony's fire
• Holy Fire (2018), a wildfire in California

See also

• Eternal flame (disambiguation)