The Tawny One : Soma, Haoma, and Ayahuasca (9781908995223)

The identity of the plant known as soma in ancient India and as haoma in the Zoroastrian tradition has, for around 250 years, exercised the wits and imagination of scores of scholars. This plant is praised in the highest terms--as a kind of deity--in both Zoroastrian and Vedic texts that date from around 1,700-1,500 BCE. It is said to provide health, power, wisdom, and even immortality. It has been variously identified by researchers as a nonpsychoactive plant, as a medicine, as merely water, as alcoholic, as a narcotic, as a stimulant, and as a psychedelic. Currently, the three most supported theories are that soma/haoma was either fly-agaric mushrooms, ephedra, or Syrian rue. The author suggests that the ritual drink was based on analogues of ayahuasca, using a variety of plants, some of which he identifies in the book.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 295 pages
• Dimensions 156 x 234 x 12.7mm | 408.23g
• Publication date 30 Sep 2017
• Publisher Muswell Hill Press
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note Total Illustrations: 0
• ISBN10 190899522X
• ISBN13 9781908995223
• Bestsellers rank 1,265,397

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