Greek fire is the combustible mixture that was used with the military aims during the medieval times. First it was used by Byzantines during the maritime battles. The exact structure of the Greece fire is unknown.

The fire was always interesting to people and people tried to conquer it and to use it from the first moments they saw it. And it is necessary to say that they really succeeded.

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Salamander is the spirit of the fire and its incarnation according to medieval beliefs and magic. People believed that salamanders were living in any open fire. Very often it was described as the little lizard. Some people even consider salamander to be the special substance of the fire.

The fire is able to destroy everything on its way from forests to live people if it is uncontrolled, but at the same time fire is able to warm, to cook dinner for us, to build things we need for every-day life. But to do that the fire must be controlled and carefully kept.

The symbols of the fire

The symbolic of the fire has deep meaning as the gods were always considered to be the fire itself. Yahweh was considered to be the fire that gives birth. There are 49 known fires of Brahma. These are the symbols of the Great Consciousness.

Salamander is the symbol of the fire element that reflects the consciousness of the fire with its eternal motion and instability.

The fire is able to damage any forms, but at the same time it is able to purify by the great power it keeps. According to medieval beliefs salamander lived in the fire river and gives good pieces of advice being in the fire and being the incarnation of its element. Its symbolic was used in magic. It is opposed to the water and earth by its male active and not material element, but it is connected with the air by the possibility to symbolise the spiritual and saint phenomena.

For example, in the Bible the fire and the wind are connected with the image of Yahweh. The fire accompanies the appearance of God. The Holy Spirit comes to apostles in the form of the flame tips. The saint jet set to fire in the Solomon temple is considered to be the manifestation of the God presence. The flame tips as the symbol of saint people were pictured over the heads of different mythological and cult characters in many countries of East.

In Egyptian hieroglyphs the fire is associated with the thoughts about the high status and the power becoming the symbol of the spiritual energy and it is related with the notions of life and health.

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