Editing Apam Napat (section)

==='Swamp gas' conjecture===
Based on the idea that this fire-from-water image was inspired by flaming seepage natural gas,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tyrrell |first1=Maliheh S. |date=2000 |title=Aesopian Literary Dimensions of Azerbaijani Literature of the Soviet Period, 1920-1990 |page=34 |publisher=Lexington Books}}</ref> attempts have been made to connect the name "Apam Napat" to the word "[[wikt:naphtha|naphtha]]", which passed into Greek – and thence English – from an Iranian language.

However, there is only a modest amount of evidence for a link between the sacred fires of Iranian religion and petroleum or natural gas – although the account of the blowing of the 3&nbsp;sacred fires out to sea from the back of the ox Srishok where, unquenched, they continue to burn on the water<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Bundahishn]] |chapter=chapter&nbsp;18 verses&nbsp;8–9 |chapter-url=}}</ref> is suggestive – particularly in relation to [[hydrocarbon]] deposits in the Southwestern part of the [[Caspian Sea]], exploited currently by the [[Absheron gas field]] near [[Baku]] in [[Azerbaijan]].

The etymology of the word "naphtha" has been claimed likely to relate to the Akkadian ''napṭu'', "petroleum".<ref name="Forbes1966">{{cite book |author=Forbes |first=R. J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nc4UAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA13 |title=Studies in Ancient Technology |publisher=Brill Archive |year=1966 |page=13 |id=GGKEY:YDBU5XT36QD |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202094805/https://books.google.com/books?id=nc4UAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false |archive-date=2020-02-02 |url-status=live}}</ref>