Agni- The God OF Fire

Agni , the god of Fire is one of the most prominent of the deities of the Vedas. With the single exception of Indra , more hymns are addressed to him than to any other diety. Bright, seven-rayed god,how manifold thy shapes, revealed to us thy votaries: now we see thee with body all of gold, and radient hair flaming from terrific heads,and mouths,whose burning jaws and teeth devour all things, now with a thousands glowing horns and now flashing thy luster from a thousands eyes.

                 Various accounts are given of the origin of agni. He is said to be a son of Dyaus and prthivi .In picture he is represented as a red man , having three legs and seven arms , dark eyes eyebrows and hair.Agni is an immortal who has taken up his adobe with mortals as their guest. He is the domestic priest who rises before the dawn, and who concentrates in his own person and excercises in a higher sense all the various sacrificial offices which the Indian ritual assigns to a number different human functionaries. He is sage, the divinest among the sages, immediately acquainted with all the forms of worship .He is a swift messenger , moving between heaven and earth commissioned both by gods and men to maintain their mutual communication, to announce to the immortals , and to convey to them the oblations of their worshippers. The highest divine functions are ascribed to Agni. Altough in some places he is spoken of as son of heaven and earth, in other he is said to have stretched them out to have formed that, and all that flies or walks, or stand or moves.The Worshippers of Agni prosper, are wealthy, and live long.