Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
homa and soma.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A leafless East Indian vine (
Sarcostemma acidum ); its sour milky juice was formerly used to make an intoxicating drink.
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- noun Zoroastrianism Name of a
plant and corresponding personified divinity that issacred inZoroastrian culture and in laterPersian culture and mythology.
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- noun leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink
Etymologies
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Examples
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Common to the Magi and their Zoroastrian successors (as well as the similar traditions of the Indian Brahmans) was the admittedly intoxicating botanical sacrament called haoma/soma.
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Among the Parsees the priest eats the bread and drinks the haoma, or juice of a plant, considered to be both a plant and a god.
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923
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Among the Parsees the priest eats the bread and drinks the haoma, or juice of a plant, considered to be both a plant and a god.
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918
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The soma-haoma, a drink-offering common to both Indian Vedism and Iranian Parseeism, must be dated back to primeval times, when the Indians and the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The precious haoma, the drink of immortality, not only conduced in the case of mankind to eternal life, but was likewise a drink for the gods themselves.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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This Iranian haoma is doubtlessly identical with the Indian soma, the intoxicating juice of which
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The haoma, as the oldest sacrifice, calls for particular mention; manufactured out of the narcotic juice of a certain plant and used as a drink-offering, it was identified with the Deity Himself and given to the faithful as a means of procuring immortality.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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In the later Avesta this drink, originally only a medium of cult, was formally deified, and identified with the divinity; nay even the very vessels used in the fabrication of this drink from the haoma branches were celebrated and adored in hymns of praise.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Greek gods, or the haoma of the Iranians, or the soma of the ancient
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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A sacred meal was celebrated of bread and haoma juice for which in the West wine was substituted.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
artoparts commented on the word haoma
See soma & gaokerena & rhyton.
January 22, 2009