Keyword: Fire
Animal Sacrifice [1471]
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Lat. 992
A Gentoo Burning Herself (1783)
from: The Geographical Magazine, London, Harrison & Co., 1783
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/hinduism/sati/sati.html
The sacrifice of Manoah (from the series: Life of Samson) (1549)
London, British Museum
Aeneas finds a sow with 30 piglets, and sacrifices her to Jupiter and Juno [1530]
from: Vergil, Aeneid (Limoges, France)
London, Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. 1604-1855)
Aeneas Offers Sacrifice to the Gods of the Lower World (1530-1540)
from: Vergil, Aeneid, edited by Sebastian Brant and printed by Johann Grüninge (Limoges, France)
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Plate with Scene of the Sacrifice of Isaac (1560-1570)
from: France, Limoges
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Via della fede mostrata a’gli ebrei da Giulio Morosini Venetiano
Rome: Stamparia della Sacra Congregazione de Propaganda Fide, 1683.
Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The union of the couple on the pyre (1657)
from: Sūz u Gudāz ms, Iran, Walters Manuscript W. 649, fol. 19b (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
the young Hindu woman accompanies her bridegroom's coffin to the funeral pyre and decides to commit sati (1657)
from: Walters manuscript W.649 (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum
Through Fire: Creative Aspects of Sacrificial Rituals in the Vedic-Hindu Continuum
in: Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity, pp. 109-131
Leiden: Brill, 2017.
Sheep, Wheat, and Wine: An Achaemenian Antecedent of the Sasanian Sacrifices pad ruwān
in: Bulletin of the Asia Institute - Iranian and Zoroastrian Studies in Honor of Prods Oktor Skjærvø , v. 19 (2005), issue : pp.111-118.
Aspects of the ‘Interiorization’ of the Sacrifice in the Zoroastrian Tradition
in: Zoroastrian Rituals in Context, pp. 233-252
Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Levitici, Cap. X, v.2, Igne Peccantes Igne Necantur (1732 - 1737)
from: J. J. Scheuchzer, Physique sacrée, ou Histoire naturelle de la Bible, Amsterdam, Pierre Schenk - Pierre Mortier, 1732 - 1737, tome troisieme, tab. CCXXVII
Le grand sacrifice des Canadiens à Quitchi-Manitou ou le Grand Esprit (1723)
from: Picart, Bernard. Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde: représentées par des figures, deel III. Amsterdam: Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1723-1743
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Manner in which the Women in India Burn (1728)
from: Picart, B. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, tome II, Amsterdam, 1728
London, Wellcome Collection
Manner in which they Bury Themselves (1728)
from: Picart, B. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, tome II, Amsterdam, 1728
London, Wellcome Collection