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- noun Zoroastrianism
Haoma plant personified as a deity, usually capitalized when referred to as such.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some maintain that Samanoo replaced Haoma, a scared herbal drink known for its healing properties.
Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008
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Even the hallucinogenic plant that inspired the Aryan poets was a god, called Haoma in
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[Haoma] and Varuna, prepared the way for the elucidation of the history of "Dragons and Rain Gods" in my next lecture (Chapter II).
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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Sun, Moon, Stars, the sacred Haoma plant (Skt. Soma), and other natural elements all have their special spirits.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The oldest Mazdayashnians declared that the drinking of Haoma was an act, at once pleasing to God and necessary to stimulate the zeal of the priests in the long and monotonous chanting, which would otherwise soon sink to a mere perfunctory performance of a wearisome task.
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From time to time, the golden goblets were filled with the sweet Haoma juice, and passed rapidly from hand to hand along the line, and as each priest drank more freely of the subtle fermented liquor, his eyes gained a new and more unnatural light, and his gestures grew more wild, while the whole body of voices rose together from an even and dignified chant to an indistinguishable discord of deafening yells.
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The king had sat motionless and frowning upon his seat until he saw the high priest fall headlong into the receptacle of the sacred Haoma.
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Haoma drinker could sustain such an endless series of repeated prayers with fitting devotion and energy.
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The high priest himself, utterly intoxicated and screaming with a voice like a wild beast in agony, fell backwards across the marble vase at the foot of the mortar and his hand and arm plashed into the dregs of the fermented Haoma.
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He walked slowly up the temple on the left side, and keeping his right hand toward the altar, he walked seven times around it, repeating a hymn alone in low tones; till, after the seventh time, he went up to the farther end of the hall, and stood before the black marble trough in which the fermented Haoma stood ready, having been prepared with due ceremony three days before.
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