c. 4500 BCE. h₁wes-, a place to dwell, the hearth as the sacred center, the fire-tending motherline, older than language. Proto-Indo-European. c. 1500 BCE. वसति vasati, to dwell; वस्त्र vastra, garment, covering. Sanskrit. c. 1000 BCE. vastar, the dweller, the keeper of the sacred fire. Avestan. վայր vayr, place, site; հուր hur, fire. Armenian. آتش âtash, fire; آتشگاه ateshgah, the temple of the eternal flame. Persian. c. 800 BCE. Ἑστία Hestia, her name is hearth, the first to receive offering and last to be invoked. Greek. c. 600 BCE. Vesta, her Roman inheritance, guardian of the eternal flame; vestales, the priestesses who tended it. Latin. vestire, to clothe, to dress, to invest with power. vestment, a sacred relationship with cloth. vessel, the body as container for spirit. vestige, a trace, a remnant, what remains from what came before. vestibule, a threshold before entering liminal space. vestra, the collective feminine plural, belonging to us all.