Similarly the Jewish synagogues have each their eternal lamp.

On top of the Ark is light which is always lit, called the "Eternal Lamp".

The Eternal Lamp, however, hangs from a bas-relief of an American eagle surrounded by clouds.

Paulinus, bishop of Nola (died 431), describes the altar at the eucharist as crowned with crowded lights, and even mentions the eternal lamp.

Down, down, down ... At last a passage intercepted at right angles, lit with the yellow light of eternal lamps.

Bright and glimmering as the stars above their heads, lonely and motionless as they, it seemed to claim some kindred with the eternal lamps of Heaven, and to burn in fellowship with them.

Eventually the keeping of such fires became a sacred rite, and the "Eternal Lamps" kept burning in synagogues and in Byzantine and Catholic churches may be a survival of these customs.

In the dawn of the third day, while the eternal lamp of the morning star still burned above the horizon, Penrod left Yakub with the camels and climbed to the top of a conical hill, the only feature in this burnt-out, desolate world.