Sentence examples for fire festival from inspiring English sources

Midsummer used to be a fire festival.

A fire festival in Ramsar, Iran.

Modern day Vikings gathered in their thousands last night for the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival.

Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images 11.12am BST Here's another performer from the Beltane Fire Festival.

Up Helly Aa, which takes place at the start of each year, is Europe's biggest fire festival.

Here, performers celebrate the coming of summer at the Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill Edinburgh, Scotland.

Our pagan ancestors had a calendar of fire festivals, and God's first recorded words, according to the Hebrew Bible, were: "Let there be light".

During the hi-matsuri ("fire festivals") at the beginning of the new year, worshippers carry back to their home hearths torches lit from the new fire started by the temple priest.

The apparently supernatural power manifest in solstices to govern the seasons has been felt as far back as we know, inducing different reactions from different cultures — fertility rites, fire festivals, offerings to the gods.

In "Hadrian," Yourcenar gathers not just the round-cheeked boys and the fire festivals but also the less glamorous materials — the tax abatements, the judicial reforms — into sentences that throb and glow like rising suns.

"We'd like to thank everyone who helped make last night a success, from local residents, to volunteers, the city council, police, and others". The Beltane Fire Society is a charity run by volunteers, dedicated to marking the fire festivals of the ancient Celtic calendar and keeping traditional Scottish skills of street theatre, music and pageantry alive.