Fire (god)
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Religion in NetHack |
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- For other uses of the term, see Fire (disambiguation).
In SLASH'EM, SlashTHEM, and Hack'EM, Fire is the neutral god of the Flame Mage pantheon.
Origin
Religious rituals centred on a fire or the concept of fire, including worship or deification, are generally known pyrodulia, pyrolatry or pyrolatria, and can be found in various religions. These fire rituals have been an important part of human culture since the Lower Paleolithic Age, with religious or animist notions connected to fire being assumed to reach back to such early prehuman times. Among the earliest examples of fire worship are hymns to the fire god Agni attested by the Vedas, and Indo-European languages have concepts of an 'animate' and 'inanimate' fire.