Carrying Fires: Indo-European Fire Rituals and Glowing Embers on the Move
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Abstract
The solemn sadhu carrying his holy fire in a ceramic pot on his head are the last bearers of a specific part of millennia long traditions and Indo-European heritages. While the Vedic fires still shine and burn in many rituals throughout the sub-Indian continent, the particular fires ever burning and carried in ceramic pots represent perhaps one of the oldest and most original types of Vedic and Indo-European fires and fire rituals. The reasons why these types of fires were seen as the utmost holy and preserved as the most venerated and honourable gift from the gods cannot be sought under the scorching sun along the holy rivers in India, but among pastoral groups living in harsh and cold conditions and climates. Among early Indo-European pastoralists, the ever-burning fire represented the ultimate source and force of life, and these beliefs have been so strong and pervasive that the tradition and religious importance still shines and will continue to do so, because in their seemingly simplicity, these fire rituals reveal a profound complexity and they enable particular ritual possibilities and unique conceptualisations of divinities and their qualities
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".