fireworship

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fireworship (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of fire-worship
    • 1995, Shripad Dattatraya Kulkarni, Dharma and Vedic Foundations, page 22:
      These brothers did not like the sacrifical form of worship, though they did not discard fireworship and so they were driven out by the sacrifical worshippers.
    • 2003, Gabriele Marasco, Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity, →ISBN:
      Similar thought patterns lie behind Malalas' interest in Persian fireworship and Zorastrianism, information on which may derive from an identified Persian informant, Timotheos 'the Persian carrier'.
    • 2006, Mangesh Venktesh Nadkarni, Hinduism, a Gandhian Perspective, →ISBN, page 150:
      Not much is known about the religion of the Indus civilization, except that they also had some form of fireworship and sacrifice; they also worshipped a form of Shiva, identified as Pashupati; and even had a cult of mother Goddess.