Soma (drink)
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Soma is a ritual drink of importance in the Historical Vedic religion of the early Vedic Indo-Aryans. The Rigveda mentions it, particularly in the Soma Mandala. It is equivalent to the Iranian haoma,
Ephedra gerardiana
Haoma
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Haoma is a divine plant in Zoroastrianism and in later Persian culture and mythology. Haoma has its origins in Indo-Iranian religion and is the cognate of Vedic soma.
Soma (drink)
…Historical Vedic religion of the early Vedic Indo-Aryans. The Rigveda mentions it, particularly in the Soma Mandala. It is equivalent to the Iranian haoma, and associated with immortality (amrita) and the conquering of territory by a king. The texts describe the preparation of soma by means of extracting…
A representative of the genus Ephedra.