Haoma and Harmaline: The Botanical Identity of the Indo-Iranian Sacred Hallucinogen "soma" and Its Legacy in Religion, Language, and Middle-Eastern Folklore |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
PHARMACOLOGICAL CORRESPONDENCE | 13 |
HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL AVAILABILITY OF HARMEL | 31 |
ETHNOBOTANIC CONTINUITY OF SAUMA IN IRAN | 45 |
THE EVIDENCE OF ZOROASTRIAN RITUALS | 67 |
THE HISTORICAL PERSISTENCE OF THE SAUMA RITES | 95 |
SUMMARY OF ARGUMENTS SHOWING IDENTITY OF SAUMA AND HARMEL | 101 |
AVESTAN PASSAGES RELEVANT TO HAOMA | 105 |
Common terms and phrases
ancient apotropaic Arabic Armenian attested Avestan Bailey bang/mang baŋha barəsman barsom Berber bhongo Bombay botanical Boyce burning ceremonies cognate connection consumed context drafša drinking drōn drug dūraoša Edited Editor and translator English Ephedra epithet etymology etymon extract Farhang-e Flora fraša Gathas Gershevitch glossed Greek hadānaēpătā haoma harmaline harmel hauma hawm hemp henbane Hōm Yasht identification Indian Indo-Iranian intoxicant intoxication Iran Iranica isfand Islamic Journal Khotanese Kitāb London mada madō Malandra Mandaean mang maryam meaning medicinal plants Middle Persian mushroom Nērangistān Ohrmazd Old Indic Old Iranian Old Slavic origin Ossetic Pahlavi parallel Pashto pāță Peganum harmala pomegranate priests Proto-Indo-Iranian Proto-Iranian psychoactive psychotropic recital refer reflected religion ṚgVeda ritual Rivāyat root Ruta graveolens sacred sadab Šambra Sanskrit sauma Schwartz seeds shamans Sogdian soma species spǝnta stems sudab svanta Syriac Table Tehran Ukrainian Vedic Vidēvdād visions vols Wīrāz Wishtasp word yagé Yasht Yasna zaotar Zoroaster Zoroastrian