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The Sacred Flame
Religion is how something is maintained for sixty generations or more
Somehow, we always ended up around the stove in the kitchen. We always ended up around the Earth.
The Yazd Atash Behram has kept its flame for 1554 years— Zoroastrians knowing in their bones that fire stands against Evil. In their temples, flames from all walks of life join the holiest fires.
We'll need such meaning-full rituals for our fusion drives in space.
Some say Tasmanians lost fire-making.
Ask the Vestal virgins if that happens when flames are eternal.