Eastern fire-worship, and so in the end with the worship of the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference

It was a modification and purification of the old fire-worship, in which the fire became a symbol of the sun, so that it was really a species of sun-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference

Ritter devotes a chapter to the fire-worship of the Guebers, who, as Parsees, form an important element at the present day in the population of the Bombay Presidency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela] Reference

The worship of light, either in its pure essence or in the forms of sun-worship and fire-worship, because the sun and the fire were causes of light, was among the earliest and most universal superstitions of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference

The Persians had never given up their native fire-worship, Mazdeism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

(Khuzistan) whose capital was Susa; and the head-quarters of fire-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Abraham, a Druid, 31; a worshipper of idols, 68; introduced fire-worship, 195.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God-Idea of the Ancients] Reference

Its name probably derived from its being devoted to the rites of fire-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

It is true that two of his humbler friends have been converted to fire-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things] Reference

There they became converts to the fire-worship then prevailing, but retained their old customs and language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

During phases in their history they participated in the various forms of tree and serpent, Phallic, or fire-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer] Reference

Here tradition placed the original seat of the fire-worship; and from hence many taught that Zoroaster, whom they regarded as the founder of Magism, had sprung.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference

Thus it naturally followed that the custom of deifying all things which the primitive mind was unable to grasp, led in direct line to the fire-worship of later days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé] Reference

It is believed that Abraham introduced fire-worship among the Jews from Ur in Mesopotamia, a land in which lights are still venerated, and fire altars are worshipped as containing the Deity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God-Idea of the Ancients] Reference

Perhaps the most significant indication of their former character as places sacred to sun and fire-worship is found in the names by which, to the present day, they are known among the common people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Wonders] Reference

The main foundation of these views was the identification of Zoroastrianism with the Magian fire-worship, which was really ancient in Azerbijan, and flourished in Media under the great Median monarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference

This was the sum of it -- From the beginning of the world, as he expressed it, that is, from thousands and thousands of years ago, this Mountain had been the home of a peculiar fire-worship, of which the head heirophant was a woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ayesha, the Return of She] Reference

A mixture of Buddhism and Paganism, with traces of Sabaeism or fire-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia] Reference

"It was Rassen who on the Mountain supplanted the primeval fire-worship whereof the flaming pillars which light its Sanctuary remain as monuments, by that of Hes, or Isis, or rather blended the two in one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ayesha, the Return of She] Reference

Susa; and the head-quarters of fire-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Of fire-worship Toland observes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God-Idea of the Ancients] Reference

Hence sun and fire-worship were identical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century] Reference