
	Where results make sense

Topic: Sacred fire of Vesta

Related Topics

Vesta (mythology)

Vesta (god)

Vestals

Vesta

Vestal Virgin

Egeria (mythology)

4 Vesta

Roman Forum

Julian calendar

Roman law

Rea Silvia

Ancient Rome

Pontifex Maximus

Theodosius I

Modena, Italy

In the News (Fri 4 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Vesta - LoveToKnow 1911
		The form of the primitive house in which the fire was preserved, probably a round hut made of wattled osiers daubed with clay, appears to have survived both in the circular prytaneum of the Greeks and in the Aedes Vestae (Temple of Vesta) in Rome.
		To watch this fire would naturally be the duty of unmarried women, and hence may have arisen the Roman order of virgin priestesses, the vestals, whose chief duty it was to tend the sacred fire.
		Among both Greek and early Latin races, at the founding of a new colony, fire was solemnly sent from the prytaneum of the mother colony to kindle a similar sacred fire in the new settlement.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Vesta (2137 words)

	Sacred fire of Vesta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sacred fire of Vesta, who in Roman mythology was the goddess of the hearth and goddess of fire, was central to Roman piety.
		According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the Romans believed that the fire was closely tied to the fortunes of the city and viewed its extinction as a portent of disaster.
		The worship of Vesta grew out of this practice; the position of the Vestal Virgins, who tended the sacred fire, was originally held by the Roman king's daughters, who, like other young Roman girls, were responsible for tending the house's fire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sacred_fire_of_Vesta (464 words)

	Vesta
		Vesta is the goddess of the hearth, equated with the Greek Hestia.
		In her temple on the Palatine Hill, the sacred fire of the Roman state burned, which was maintained by the Vestal Virgins.
		The ass is Vesta's sacred animal, whose braying supposedly kept the lascivious Priapus away.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/v/vesta.html (249 words)

	Taboo, Magic, Sprits: A Study of Primitive Elements in Roman Religion: Chapter VII: Naturalism and Animism
		Vesta, too, the Roman goddess of fire, must have been thus addressed; for in her temple there was no cult statue, only the sacred fire--Vesta herself.
		The fire was in the care of the unmarried daughters of the family, who were, in reality, the priestesses of the sacred fire in the home.
		Vesta never outgrew her character as a mere spirit, for the sacred fire was her only representation in the "temple" of Vesta.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/tms/tms09.htm (8733 words)

	Vesta
		Vesta was intertwined with the fruits of the earth and sedentary farmers rather than migratory pastoralists, which forms the premise of Her indigenous Latin origins.
		Vesta was the intransient emblem of survival and familial cohesiveness which contributed to the foundation of a communal society.
		She is still the unsleeping fire of the domestic hearth and overseer of the home where family and a sense of belonging reign, and from which the fruits of the earth are prepared and stored.
	www.religioromana.net /dii_consentes/vesta.htm (1595 words)

	Vesta: Mythology - astrology.com
		She was the Keeper of the Hearth and tended the sacred fire on Mt. Olympus.
		Hestia, her Greek name, literally translates to mean "fire." She is revered as fire is: warming, soothing, enlightening, and essential to the soul, but less crucial to the needs of the flesh.
		Vesta was the Goddess of the Vestal Virgins, a group of women trusted for their truth-telling who wielded immense power in society.
	goddess.astrology.com /vesta/mythology.html?par=astyh\|blog (149 words)

	Sacred fire of Vesta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Sacred fire of Vesta, the Roman goddess of the hearth and goddess of fire, was an eternal flame which burned within the Temple of Vesta on the Roman Forum.
		The worship of Vesta grew out of this practice; the position of the Vestal Virgins, who tended the sacred fire, was originally held by the Roman king's daughters, who, like other young Roman girls, had the chore of tending the house's fire.
		Nikola Tesla once suggested, in passing, that the fire of Vesta might be electrical plasma.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/s/sa/sacred_fire_of_vesta.html (532 words)

	4 Vesta
		Vesta, is the eldest sister of Zeus but she chose to spend her time, not on Olympus, but on earth with the mortals.
		Vesta was never represented in human form but was believed to exist in the flames of her sacred fire.
		Vesta is the most geologically diverse of the large asteroids and the only known one with distinctive light and dark areas much like the face of our Moon.
	www.geocities.com /zlipanov/selected_asteroids/4_vesta/4_vesta.html (792 words)

	[No title]
		The sacred fire of Vesta near the Forum was, it is true, from the earliest times enclosed in a building; this, however, was no temple, but merely an erection with the essentially practical purpose of preventing the extinction of the fire by rain.
		Vesta was, of course, worshipped at the hearth by the women, who most often used it in the preparation of the domestic meals.
		His sacred animal is the warlike wolf, his symbols the spears and the sacred shields (_ancilia_), which during his own month (_Martius_)--the 1st of which is his special festival--his priests (_Salii_) wearing the full war-dress (_trabea_ and _tunica picta_) carry with sacred dance and song round the city.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/8/5/6/18564/18564-8.txt (13284 words)

	fire. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Fire as a god is a characteristic feature of Zoroastrianism, in which, as in many sun-worshiping religions, fire is considered the earthly representative or type of the sun.
		The belief that fire is sacred is widespread in mythology, and such beliefs have survived in some highly developed cultures.
		The connection between the Greek colony and the metropolis was the fire kindled in the colony from a brand brought from the mother city’s fire.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fi/fire.html (278 words)

	The Miracle Mongers, an Expose' - CHAPTER ONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The sacred fire itself was known as Vesta, and its burning was considered a proof of the presence of the goddess.
		Another theory holds that the keepers of the sacred fires were the first public servants, and that from this small beginning sprang the intricate public service of the present.
		Reid's description of the fire walking itself may not be out of place; it will show that the Japs had nothing new to offer aside from the ritualistic ceremonials with which they camouflaged the hocus-pocus of the performance, which is merely a survival of the ordeal by fire of earlier religions.
	worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/newage/MiracleMongers/Chap1.html (1847 words)

	Nova Roma: Calendar of Holidays and Festivals
		Laurels (which are sacred to Mars) are affixed to the houses of the flamen priests and to various public buildings.
		It is a day of renewal, as the sacred fire of Vesta is tended by the Vestal Virgins.
		The Salii (priests of Mars) dance in the comitium (attended by the pontiffs and the symbolic representatives of the army — the tribuni celerum), and the sacred arma ancilia are purified.
	www.novaroma.org /calendar/martius2.html (745 words)

	Vesta, Flame and Hearth Goddess of Ancient Rome--Vesta Hestia fire goddess Vestal Virgins fire gods Roman gods and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Vesta is the Roman Goddess of Fire and the Hearth, whose circular temple in Rome was considered the central hearth of the City.
		Vesta represents the sacred heart or hearth of the home, the central fire which supplies heat and on which food is cooked.
		Vesta was equated with the Greek Hestia; the early Roman Goddess of Fire
	www.thaliatook.com /vesta.html (389 words)

	Vesta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Vesta was the goddess of the hearth; her etymology equivalent was the Greek goddess Hestia.
		Eventually fires were not only kept perpetually lit in homes as an act of devotion, but a public cult existed in which a royal hearth was tended by young, well-born girls known as the Vestal Virgins.
		In addition to tending the sacred fire their other duties included fetching water from the sacred spring, the preparation of sacred foods, guardianship of sacred objects, and the daily ritual at the shrine of Vesta.
	www.themystica.org /mythical-folk/articles/vesta.html (373 words)

	The Vestal Virgins of Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A chief Vestal duty was tending the sacred fire in the round, peaked-roofed Temple of Vesta.
		The goddess Vesta was a Roman adaptation of the Greek goddess Hestia, pictured at the left.
		Vesta was once the goddess of the hearth and later became the goddess of the flame that symbolized the Roman state.
	www.angelfire.com /va2/vestalvirgins (358 words)

	Book of Shadows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fire is the most primal of elements, the element of will, passion, change, and intensity; the essence of all forms of magick, since magick is the process of change, itself.
		It is not only the "sacred fire" of sex, but also the spark of divinity which shines within us and in all living things.
		Fire is the most active of elements, representing motivation of all sorts - the Will to create or to destroy, to move towards something, or just to move for the sake of moving.
	www.tryskelion.com /fire.htm (243 words)

	VESTA (Gr. 'Errata) - Online Information article about VESTA (Gr. 'Errata)
		Hestia (q.v.) and the Latin Vesta, both of which involved the guardianship of an ever-burning sacred fire, are most probably derived from a very See also:
		chief duty it was to tend the sacred fire.
		ATRIUM (either from ater, fl, referring to the flening of the walls from the smoke of the hearth, or from the Greek aiOpeov, open to the sky, or from an Etruscan town, Atria, where the style of building is supposed to have originated)
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /VAN_VIR/VESTA_Gr_Errata_.html (2966 words)

	The Old Roman State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The hearth and its fire were worshipped as the goddess Vesta.
		The common fire of the state was kept continually burning by the Virgins of Vesta in an old round temple dedicated to her.
		Vesta had a temple, however, because her eternal fire would have gone out if left in the open air.
	www.sacredspiral.com /Database/rome/rome19.html (2189 words)

	Vesta - Feminine Solar Logos - Ascended Masters Research Center
		Vesta, the Roman "Goddess of the Hearth", was worshipped at home as the Deity of the family hearth (the family fireplace).
		Her temple was lit by a Sacred Fire, brought by Aeneas from Troy, and tended by six virgin priestesses known as the Vestal Virgins.
		The Sacred Fire She gave in those ages past, was visible and tangible to the physical senses of mankind.
	www.ascendedmasters.ac /vesta.html (2825 words)

	Temple of Vesta, Italy
		In ancient times the Temple of Vesta in the Forum - there is another temple of Vesta in the Forum Boarium - contained the "Sacred Fire" which was guarded by the Vestals (virgins selected from the best families in Rome).
		The Romans attached great importance to this "eternal fire"; on the first day of the new year (March first) they put out the fires in their houses and lit new ones from the flame in the temple of Vesta.
		Templo of Vesta or Rotondo from reign of Augustus in Rome.
	www.planetware.com /rome/temple-of-vesta-i-la-rfrtv.htm (184 words)

	Olympians
		For the Romans, she was the all-important household goddess, the goddess of the hearth and the hearth fire.
		The olive tree was sacred to her, and her sacred animals were horses, sea eagles, cocks and serpents, but her favourite bird was the owl.
		Other places sacred to the goddess, include the island of Delos worshipped with her brother; the city of Gortyn, where she was possibly worshipped since the Middle Bronze Age Crete; Munychia, the harbour of Athens.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/olympians.html (13437 words)

	Forum Romanum: the Temple of Vesta and the Vestal Virgins
		The Vestals guarded the sacred fire of Vesta, once the spirit of the Roman hearth, later the goddess of the flame that symbolized the Roman State.
		The fire of Vesta in the temple was never permitted to go out and it was tended by the Vestals according to an ancient and intricate ritual.
		Vesta is the same as the Earth; under both of them is a perpetual fire; the earth and the hearth are symbols of the home.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Article/634992 (3371 words)

	March in Roman-Gregorian format or Old and New Style calendar
		Dressed in the symbolic armor of the Roman state, the priests marched around Rome several times during the month of March to announce the coming military campaigns in the spring season of war.
		The original ancile, or sacred shield of Mars, was said to have fallen from heaven during the time of Numa.
		Sacred to Mars were not only the spear and shield, but also the wolf, woodpecker, and the fig tree.
	www.wordquests.info /mar-history.html (364 words)

	Vesta Candles
		Vesta commands the sacred fires of the hearth.
		Vesta Candles will bring that feeling into your home or workplace, whether a tropical paradise, a cozy cabin in the mountains, or a memory of childhood tradition is what you desire.
		Vesta Candles are made from a special blend of paraffin and soy wax, highly scented with rich fragrance oils.
	www.vestacandles.com (149 words)

	Vestal Virgin: Encyclopedia - Vestal Virgin
		The fire was rekindled in this case by "the rays of the sun".
		By maintaining Hestia's sacred fire, from which anyone could receive it for household use, they functioned as "surrogate housekeepers", in a religious sense, for all of Rome.
		Their sacred fire was treated, in Imperial times, as the Emperor's household fire.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Vestal_Virgin/id/578997 (1804 words)

	All Info About Myths & Legends: The Sacred Fire
		Vesta is the goddess of the sacred fires of the hearth, the heart of spiritual and emotional stability in the home.
		Fire is a symbol of Ahura Mazda to the followers of the Zoroastrian religion.
		Fire is associated with the South, with Summer, the colour red on the physical plane and represents male energy.
	www.allinfoaboutmyths.com /sacred_fire.html (499 words)

	List of Emblems (Susanna Roxman), Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		This was really a bridal headdress; Vesta was chaste, and so had the Vestals to be, because they were considered to be married to the eternal fire on Vesta's sacred hearth.
		Fire is almost always male in mythology and folklore.
		The wolf was one of Mars's sacred animals, and the myth is symbolic.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/003Signed/SREmblems.html (3926 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. Miscellaneous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There is a theory that all architecture, public and private, sacred and profane, began with Page 3 the erection of sheds to protect the sacred fire.
		Reid's description of the fire walking itself may not be out of place; it will show that the Japs had nothing new to offer aside from the ritualistic ceremonials with which they camouflaged the hocus-pocus of the performance, Page 11 which is merely a survival of the ordeal by fire of earlier religions.
		Delcasse says, "was the supposed residence of some of the old gods of Fiji, and was, therefore, considered a sacred land." Instead of walking on the live coals, as the Japanese priests do, the Fijians walk on stones Page 16 that have been brought to a white heat in a great fire of logs.
	www.webroots.org /library/usamisc/mmatmhh1.html (5071 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)