Tongues of flame are associated with Shiva, are seen as an attribute of Shiva by Hindus, and are seen as the tongues of flame at the first Pentecost celebrated by Jesus' followers. In Hebrew Shavu ot is the term for Pentecost, showing the root connection with Shiva.  Several words in ancient Hebrew with the Seb and Shab root, connect with Shiva or attributes of Shiva.

7631 sebiyb, means flame and corresponds to

7632 shabiyb, flame (as split into tongues).

   The definitions of Sebiyb and Shabiyb are both also related to the presentation of Shiva the Deity of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch.  There is no question of Ethiopia or Kush being a Sabean nation. James Hastings in his Dictionary of the Bible under Sheba describes the Ethiopians as worshipping Seba, Saba, aka Sheba or Shiva, all of which names are simply transliterations of each other.  Let us look at Chapter 14: 8-25:

 8Behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings sped and hastened me, and the winds in 9 the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward, and bore me into heaven. And I went in till I drew nigh to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and it began to affright 10 me. And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large house which was built of crystals: and the walls of the house were like a tesselated floor (made) of crystals, and its groundwork was 11 of crystal. Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightnings, and between them were 12 fiery cherubim, and their heaven was (clear as) water. A flaming fire surrounded the walls, and its 13 portals blazed with fire. And I entered into that house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice: there 14 were no delights of life therein: fear covered me, and trembling got hold upon me. And as I quaked 15 and trembled, I fell upon my face. And I beheld a vision, And lo! there was a second house, greater 16 than the former, and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of flames of fire. And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to 17 you its splendour and its extent. And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings and the path 18 of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire. And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne: its appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the vision of 19 cherubim. And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look 20 thereon. And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and 21 was whiter than any snow. None of the angels could enter and could behold His face by reason 22 of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him. The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great fire stood before Him, and none around could draw nigh Him: ten thousand times 23 ten thousand (stood) before Him, yet He needed no counselor. And the most holy ones who were 24 nigh to Him did not leave by night nor depart from Him. And until then I had been prostrate on my face, trembling: and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to me: ' Come hither, 25 Enoch, and hear my word.' And one of the holy ones came to me and waked me, and He made me rise up and approach the door: and I bowed my face downwards.

     In the "Book of Acts," or "Acts of the Apostles," the beginning of chapter two describes the Pentecost, the descent of the tongues of fire upon the assembled: "And there appeared to them tongues of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them.  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."  Peter, answering the accusation that those speaking in tongues were filled with new wine, says that what was prophesied by the vegetarian prophet Joel has been fulfilled: "And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy."

     Fascinatingly, Danyel Brinkley's Saved by the Light, a book describing the near death experience of its author, describes Brinkley's near death encounter with the divine dimension as involving quartz as well.  Thus Brinkley inadvertently connects with the ancient and original deity of the Jews and Christians who is portrayed in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch.  Shiva was and is also known as the Lord of Seven Worlds by Hindus, thereby buttressing even more fully the realization that the Lord of Seven Worlds presented by the Quran, which also praises the Sabeans, the followers of Shiva or Saba, is also the same Deity, though masked by those whom we now regard as the orthodoxy of Islam, whose predecessors did what the original Quran precisely forbid them to do: they invented scriptures to gain a profit.  The original Quran like the original Torah and the original Ebionite Gospel of Jesus all taught vegetarianism and egalitarianism, for these practices of compassion are proofs of compassion for other creatures, and for other humans, that carnivorous people and elitist societies of rich and poor do not have.  We feel comfortable only among equals and not among authorities.  

     To make it more obvious, the person who does not kill the cow is more compassionate than the person who kills the cow.  And the person who treats all people equally is more compassionate that the person who treats others as non-equals.  Therefore we see that Shiva like Jesus and like the original deities of Judaism such as Kannan, or Krishna, and Shiva, and Uma, treated each other with sacred respect.