A fire, inferno, conflagration; heat; torch.
torch
They first lighted the torch at Olympia in 776Bc
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London in 1764
He would spit on it.
This was the light. Without electricity back then, the only means for a visible light was to light a torch.
He who lighted the flame of love in the hearts of the gods and men, armed either with a bow and arrows or else a flaming torch.
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It is a piece of the torch which was lighted at the end of the opening ceremony.
Stars give out light energy, that is they are luminous. Thus we see them for the same reason we see a lighted torch bulb.