medicine wheel: Key words: Element fire, - magic, - transformation, - rays, - heat, - light, - cleaning, - cleaning. Description: A bonfire is generally a fire which is lighted with the aim to generate warmth and heat. It plays in the religions of some of the people close to the earth an important role in ceremony and magic. General meaning: Transformation, - freeing, - rays. Association: Easter fire. Transcendent meaning: A ceremony, - magic, - an initiation, - the elementary strength of the fire. (See also fire, thunder bird)