Assertion: tortoise | /r/ObjectUse | used as very basis of the fire altar
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text: Deity Yajna-Purusha: N. Aiyangar states that as the tortoise was 'used as the very basis of the fire altar, the hidden invisible tortoise, taken together with the altar and the sacred fire, seems to have been regarded as symbolizing the Deity Yajna-Purusha who is an invisible spiritual god extending from the fire altar up to heaven and everywhere...