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. β Unknown (2009)
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. β Upton Sinclair (1923)
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 β 1840-1916 (1913)
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. β 1840-1916 (1913)
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. β 1840-1916 (1913)
There is indeed no animal sacrifice; the leading rites are the offering of the quasi-divine haoma (the fermented juice of the a sacred plant, a species of Asclepias), the exact counterpart of the Vedic soma-sacrifice; the care of the Sacred Fire, the chanting of the ritual hymns and prayers, and passages of the Sacred β 1840-1916 (1913)
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. β 1840-1916 (1913)
Greek gods, or the haoma of the Iranians, or the soma of the ancient β 1840-1916 (1913)
This Iranian haoma is doubtlessly identical with the Indian soma, the intoxicating juice of which β 1840-1916 (1913)
A sacred meal was celebrated of bread and haoma juice for which in the West wine was substituted. β 1840-1916 (1913)
Several Indo-Iranian epithets survive (of _soma_ and _haoma_, respectively), and among those of Iran is the title 'Vritra-slayer,' applied to _haoma_, the others being 'strong' and 'heaven-winning,' just as in the Veda [26]. β Edward Washburn Hopkins (1894)
For the _soma_ of the Hindus is etymologically identified with the _haoma_ of the Persians (the [Greek: omomi] of Plutarch [12]), and the cultus at least was begun before the separation of the two nations, since in each the plant is regarded as a god. β Edward Washburn Hopkins (1894)
In the Avesta Yima is the son of the 'wide-gleaming' Vivanghvant, the sun, and here it is the sun that first prepares the _soma (haoma) _ for man. β Edward Washburn Hopkins (1894)
The usual practice, however, is to call the Iranian _Yima, haoma_, etc., to one's aid if they subserve one's own view of _Yama, soma, _ and other Hindu parallels, and to discard analogous features as an independent growth if they do not. β Edward Washburn Hopkins (1894)
Here, however, in the identity of names for sacrifice (_yajna, yaΓ§na_) and of _barhis_, the sacrificial straw, of _soma = haoma_, together with many other liturgical similarities, as in the case of the metres, one must recognize a fully developed _soma_-cult prior to the separation of the Hindus and Iranians. β Edward Washburn Hopkins (1894)
Hillebrandt has failed to show that the Iranian _haoma_ is the moon, so that as a starting-point there still is plant and drink-worship, not moon-worship. β Edward Washburn Hopkins (1894)
He and his assistant now prepare the _haoma_ (the _soma_ of the Hindus), or juice of a sacred plant, the drinking of which formed part of the religious rite. β Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
This deified being, a personification of the consecrated drink, is supposed to have appeared before the prophet himself, and to have described to him the blessings which the _haoma_ bestows upon its pious worshiper. β Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
For the magic draught of the fairy-story appears to be closely connected with the Greek _ambrosia_, the Vedic _soma_ or _amrita_, the Zend _haoma_. β William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1858)
[Hey girl] have you seen [haoma]
That haoma [is crazy] β Treshi123 (2021)
