Immolation

Immolation (Latin immolare "to sacrifice", originally "to sprinkle with sacrificial meal" (mola salsa), English since the 16th c.) may refer to:

• Fire sacrifice
  • Animal sacrifice
  • Human sacrifice
  • Hecatomb
  • Holocaust (sacrifice)
• Cremation
• Self-immolation is suicide by immolation, notably as an extreme form of protest
  • Sati is a Hindu funeral custom involving self-immolation.
  • Jauhar was the voluntary death (on a funeral pyre) of the non-fighters of defeated Rajput communities to avoid capture.

In popular culture

• Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung ends with Brünnhilde's immolation
• Immolation (band) is a death metal band from Yonkers, New York
• Immolation is a spell of a Night Elf hero, the Demon Hunter, in the Blizzard computer game Warcraft III, and that of the warlock class in World of Warcraft. (In fact, immolation spells have been included in many paper and electronic fantasy games since the 1980s.)
• Damien: Omen II ends with Ann Thorn (Lee Grant) immolated by an exploding boiler
• Technical death metal band Necrophagist's song Dismembered Self-Immolation.
• In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado," Montressor notes that Fortunato 'did not perceive that my smiles, now, were at the thought of his immolation.'
• In all the games of the DooM series from DooM II onwards, the attack of the Arch-Vile is a form of immolation.
• "Self Immolation" and "Slave Labor" are Fear Factory songs about self-immolation.
• "Immolation" is the second song by Becoming the Archetype for their second album The Physics of Fire.
• Dance Dance Immolation is the version of DDR presented by Interpretive Arson at the annual Fire Arts Festival presented by The Crucible in Oakland, California. (Also at Burning Man in 2005 and 2007). It also shares the name of an achievement for the Pyro class in Team Fortress 2.
• Jasper Gein is a character from the game Silent Hill 4: The Room. He is set on fire by the game's antagonist and returns as a ghost ablaze to attack the player.
• In Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, there is a scene called Immolation, in which Darth Vader is severely injured and burned.
• The main villain of Dan Brown's novel Angels & Demons and its film adaption commits suicide by immersing himself in candle oil and lighting himself on fire in the tomb of Saint Peter.
• Some of the lyrics from song This Flesh A Tomb by Atreyu are "So stand by me as we immolate. We can burn in each other's arms."
• In the MMORPG Guild Wars, there is a spell called "Immolate" which lights the target on fire.
• In Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain, the main character, Kain, gains the Dark Gift "Immolate" after defeating Magnus.
• the "witch of immolation" is a fire-themed playable character in the DS game Luminous Arc

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