It plays a vital role in the Bhuiyan life-cycle of birth, marriage and death. In every Bhuiyan household a sacred fire is kindled at the time of the establishment of the household. This fire is never used for cooking and other mundane purposes. It is fuelled with certain kinds of wood and is kindled in a special manner by rubbing the sticks and is never allowed to burn out. In this fire the householder makes offerings to the gods and the ancestors.
Fire also epitomizes the principle of cosmic order.
It is considered fundamental to the whole universe all that lives has fire in it. Hence fire is regarded as an epitome of the fundamental principle of life which implies an ordered relation of all the things in the universe with one another and with the ultimate source of life. Water Water plays a very important role in the magico-religious life of Bhuiyans. In all major festivals, the ancestors are worshipped with water near the river bank. When a child is born he is given a ceremonial bath, and so also after a person dies.