Remember that in indigenous religious, divine powers existed within sacred objects. In the development of the srauta ritual, the sacrifice itself became to be viewed as power in its own right. Agni was the fire and the fire was divine power, a power which reached the cosmic dieties and which thus, was present in all the worlds, divine and human. Agni became identified with all of the gods. Agni, as the unifying physical power in the sacrifice, was supreme.