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(October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In much of <a href="/wiki/Western_culture" title="Western culture">Western culture</a>, fire was often associated with a god, or was revered as a god itself.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Fire was associated with a living being (because it ate, breathed, grew, decayed, and died) in both Western and non-Western religions. <a href="/wiki/Fire" title="Fire">Fire</a> was so basic to the human experience that it has persisted in the minds of humanity as an element close to nature.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Nymphaion_(fire_sanctuary)" title="Nymphaion (fire sanctuary)">eternal fire at Nymphaion</a> in southern <a href="/wiki/Illyria" title="Illyria">Illyria</a> (present-day <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a>) also functioned as an oracle. The forms of divination practiced in this natural fire sanctuary with peculiar physical properties were widely known to the ancient Greek and Roman authors.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fire rituals in <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eurasia" title="Eurasia">Eurasia</a> were thought to originate with ancient <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrian" class="mw-redirect" title="Zoroastrian">Zoroastrian</a> rituals around the use of fire in <a href="/wiki/Temples" class="mw-redirect" title="Temples">temples</a> and on <a href="/wiki/Altars" class="mw-redirect" title="Altars">altars</a>. Ancient Zoroastrians believed fire to have been “the most holy spirit” from which all life was born, and fire was used as a central <a href="/wiki/Icon" title="Icon">icon</a> in many Zoroastrian rituals.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a>, fire was often associated with <a href="/wiki/Miracle" title="Miracle">divine intervention</a>; with the <a href="/wiki/Burning_bush" title="Burning bush">burning bush</a> guiding the decision of <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Pillar_of_Fire_(theophany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pillar of Fire (theophany)">pillar of fire</a> guiding the <a href="/wiki/Israelites" title="Israelites">Israelites</a> in the wilderness. Even the burning of <a href="/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah" title="Sodom and Gomorrah">Sodom and Gomorrah</a> was accomplished through <a href="/wiki/Divine_retribution" title="Divine retribution">divine retribution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Greek_legend" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek legend">Greek legends</a> of the origins of fire speaks to the importance of fire to separate humans from animals. To many <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greeks" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greeks">ancient Greeks</a>, fire was a <a href="/wiki/Godly" class="mw-redirect" title="Godly">godly</a> element that was bestowed by higher forces, having been given to humans by the Titan <a href="/wiki/Prometheus" title="Prometheus">Prometheus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is said that in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Greek</a> society, <a href="/wiki/Virgin" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin">virgins</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Parthenon" title="Parthenon">Temple of Athena</a> in <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a> regularly practiced pyromancy. It is also likely that the followers of <a href="/wiki/Hephaestus" title="Hephaestus">Hephaestus</a>, the Greek god of fire and the <a href="/wiki/Forge" title="Forge">forge</a>, practiced pyromancy.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_magic" title="Renaissance magic">Renaissance magic</a>, pyromancy was classified as one of the seven "forbidden arts", along with <a href="/wiki/Necromancy" title="Necromancy">necromancy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geomancy" title="Geomancy">geomancy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aeromancy" title="Aeromancy">aeromancy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hydromancy" title="Hydromancy">hydromancy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palmistry" title="Palmistry">chiromancy (palmistry)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Scapulimancy" title="Scapulimancy">scapulimancy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fire <a href="/wiki/Rituals" class="mw-redirect" title="Rituals">rituals</a> in <a href="/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia">East Asia</a> most often revolved around animal bones. In <a href="/wiki/Ancient_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient China">ancient China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tibet" title="Tibet">Tibet</a>, bones from animal <a href="/wiki/Scapula" title="Scapula">scapula</a> (the shoulder bone) would be thrown into fires, and the cracks would be interpreted to divine the future. This made up an important part of the culture of ancient China, with these bones later being referred to as <a href="/wiki/Oracle_bones" class="mw-redirect" title="Oracle bones">oracle bones</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Japan, <a href="/wiki/Turtle_shells" class="mw-redirect" title="Turtle shells">turtle shells</a> would also be used as a ritualistic divination technique.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Tibet, such divination was used to understand <a href="/wiki/Natural_phenomena" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural phenomena">natural phenomena</a> that was otherwise inexplicable to <a href="/wiki/Village" title="Village">villagers</a>. <a href="/wiki/Oil_lamp" title="Oil lamp">Lamps</a> that use <a href="/wiki/Animal_fat" title="Animal fat">animal fat</a> were often burned by ancient Tibetan peoples, and the <a href="/wiki/Smoke" title="Smoke">smoke</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flames" class="mw-redirect" title="Flames">flames</a> thereof were interpreted as the guidance of natural forces.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types_of_pyromancy">Types of pyromancy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pyromancy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Types of pyromancy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The most basic form of pyromancy is that in which the diviner observes flames, from a sacrificial fire, a candle, or another source of flame, and interprets the shapes that he or she sees within them. However, there are several variations of pyromancy, some of which are as follows:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alomancy" title="Alomancy">Alomancy</a>: divination by salt, one type of which involves casting salt into a fire</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Botanomancy" title="Botanomancy">Botanomancy</a>: divination by burning plants</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capnomancy" title="Capnomancy">Capnomancy</a>: divination by smoke; light, thin smoke that rose straight up was a good omen; otherwise, a bad one.</li> <li>Causinomancy: divination by burning (non-specific as to the object burned)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daphnomancy" title="Daphnomancy">Daphnomancy</a> (also called empyromancy): divination by burning laurel leaves</li> <li>Osteomancy: divination using bones, one type of which involves heating to produce cracks</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plastromancy" class="mw-redirect" title="Plastromancy">Plastromancy</a>: divination using turtle <a href="/wiki/Plastron" class="mw-redirect" title="Plastron">plastrons</a>; in China, this was done by heating pits carved into them.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scapulimancy" title="Scapulimancy">Scapulimancy</a>: divination by scapulae; in Asia and North America, this was done through pyromancy.</li> <li>Sideromancy: divination by burning straw with an <a href="/wiki/Ironing" title="Ironing">iron</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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