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Atar is already evident in the Gathas, the oldest texts of the compendium of the Avesta and believed to have been composed by Zoroaster himself. At this juncture, as in the Yasna Haptanghaiti (the seven-chapter Yasna that structurally interrupts the Gathas and is linguistically as old as the Gathas themselves), atar is still—with only one exception—an abstract concept simply an instrument ...
Fire is one of the elements that was praised and venerated by the ancient Iranians. Fire is in the Avesta as Atash or Atar, in Pahlavi literature atour or atakhsh; or in Persian literature, fire is known as azar or athash.
[1] [2] [3] In Zoroastrian doctrine, atar and aban (fire and water) are agents of ritual purity. Clean, white "ash for the purification ceremonies [is] regarded as the basis of ritual life", which "are essentially the rites proper to the tending of a domestic fire, for the temple [fire] is that of the hearth fire raised to a new solemnity". [4]
The chief ritual of the ancient Iranians was the yasna, in which the deities were praised and the mind-altering drug hauma was consumed. This ritual was performed by a highly trained priestly class. Politics and religion under the Persian empires were strongly connected.
Homa (ritual), general term for South Asian fire rituals; Vedi (altar), altar for fire rituals in Vedic religion; The Sacred fire of Vesta in ancient Roman religion; Holy Fire, a concept in Orthodox Christianity; The sacred fire in Solomon's Temple; The sacramental Easter Fire; Fire personified as a deity in Indo-European religion: Atar in ...
Given that fire is considered highly sacred in both Hinduism and Zoroastrianism (as Agni and Atar respectively), [20] and the two faiths share similar elements (such as Yajna and Yasna) from a common proto-Indo-Iranian precursor religion, [21] there has been debate on whether the Atashgah was originally a Hindu site or a Zoroastrian one.
One of the hypostases of the Aramaean ʿAttar was 𐡏𐡕𐡓𐡔𐡌𐡉𐡍 (ʿAttar-Šamayin), that is the ʿAttar of the Heavens: in this role, ʿAttar was the incarnation of the sky's procreative power in the form of the moisture provided by rain, which made fertile his consort, the goddess of the Earth which has been dried up by the summer heat.
Modern replica of utensils and vedi used for Agnicayana, an elaborate Śrauta ritual originating from the Kuru Kingdom, c. 1000 BCE. They were used in various types of Yajna rituals, of which the lengthiest was the agnicayana, lasting twelve days. In Vedic times, offerings, often including animals, were burnt in the fire, and fully consumed by it.