page_title: Fire worship
hierarchical_section_title: Fire worship
caption_attribution_description: English: Agni, god of fire, shown riding a goat Français&#160;: Agni, le dieu du feu, chevauchant une chèvre
context_page_description: Worship or deification of fire is known from various religions. Fire has been an important part of human culture since the Lower Paleolithic. The earliest known traces of controlled fire were found at the Daughters of Jacob Bridge, Israel, and dated to 790,000 years ago. Religious or animist notions connected to fire are assumed to reach back to such early pre-Homo sapiens times.
context_section_description: Worship or deification of fire (also pyrodulia, pyrolatry or pyrolatria) is known from various religions. Fire has been an important part of human culture since the Lower Paleolithic. The earliest known traces of controlled fire were found at the Daughters of Jacob Bridge, Israel, and dated to 790,000 years ago. Religious or animist notions connected to fire are assumed to reach back to such early pre-Homo sapiens times.
caption: Agni the Hindu deity of fire, has a very prominent place among Rigvedic deities.
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