'sacrificial fire' is a correct and usable phrase in written English and can be used to refer to a fire that is used in a ritual or religious ceremony.
Example sentence: "The priest lit the sacrificial fire, and the purification ritual began."
Vessels for holding and maintaining the sacrificial fire may be used in such situations.
I personally know of no Hindu home in the UK that has a sacrificial fire!
Distinct from both is Agni, the fire, who is observed in various manifestations: in the sacrificial fire, in lightning, and hidden in the logs used in fires.
Sacred formulas known as mantras were recited by the adhvaryu, the priest responsible for the sacrificial fire and for carrying out the ceremony.
More important were such gods as Indra (chief of the gods), Varuna (guardian of the cosmic order), Agni (the sacrificial fire), and Surya (the Sun).
The marks are made by hand or with a metal stamp, using ash from a sacrificial fire, sandalwood paste, turmeric, cow dung, clay, charcoal, or red lead.
His functions included saying prayers, lighting ceremonial fires for sacrificial meals, choosing and determining the suitability of sacrificial animals, auguring, and blessing the offerings.
Amid the celebration on the eighth day, as the people are consecrating the Mishkan (Tabernacle), two of Aaron's sons, Nadav and Avihu, step forward and place an "alien fire" on the sacrificial altar.
For his part Williams is having a field day with the firing, playing the sacrificial lamb role on the altar of "liberal bias" and PC correctness.
The company will not discuss it now, but Holzinger later filed a lawsuit alleging that its officials spread a false rumor that the violence stemmed from "an illicit extramarital affair" between her and "the murdered contractor Antonyan". Her lawsuit complained that she was made a "sacrificial lamb" when she was fired a week before Christmas because she still was too shaken to return to work.
Two such vessels have been well described in religious literature: the Vedic Indian vessel (ukha) made of earth and fired in a pit on the sacrificial grounds and the urn (ātash-dān) of pre-Sāsānid Iranian fire altars.
