THE BEST SIDE OF FIRE

Amongst the Israelites, Abraham may very well be seen as being a reformer who resisted the ancient worship of Moloch, the god of fire, by baby sacrifice. In Siberia the two the primitive Koryak and Chuckchi and the more civilized Buryat honoured the fire-god by trying to keep all filth and impurities far from their fires and hearths. The need to gu