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Haoma and Harmaline: The Botanical Identity of the Indo-Iranian Sacred Hallucinogen Soma

Argues that the Indo-Iranian sacred plant sauma/soma was Peganum harmala (Syrian rue), drawing on its beta-carboline pharmacology and Avestan and Vedic texts.

Author: David Stophlet Flattery; Martin Schwartz
Type: Book
Written: 1989
Edition: 1989
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Tradition: Zoroastrianism
Identifiers: ISBN9780520096271, OCLC935554094

Where to find it

Google Books — Haoma and Harmaline (Flattery & Schwartz, 1989)
WorldCat — OCLC 935554094