![]() ![]() In addition to the various non-psychoactive plants that have been used as soma substituted in both the Zoroastrian and Hindu traditions, a great number of candidates for soma have been put forward by Western investigators over the last two hundred years. Although some of the descendants of these peoples still perform their rituals, the identity of the sacred entheogenic plant has been lost and non-psychoactive substitutes are now used in place of the mysterious soma/haoma. The plant was called soma by the Indians and haoma by the Iranians. Both works describe rituals in which a plant with hallucinogenic properties was consumed. ![]() These scriptures are the Rig Veda and the Avesta, of the Indians and Iranians respectively. Both preserved a vast body of religious oral literature which was only later written down. One group, the Indo-Aryans, moved south to the Indus Valley the other became the ancient Iranian peoples. About 4,000 years ago they split into two distinct groups. Little, Brown and Company (1998) The Indo-Iranians were an ancient people who had their homeland somewhere in Central Asia. The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances ![]()
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