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Intoxicating drink of the gods
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soma
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Soma or Haoma ( Avestan ), from Proto-Indo-Iranian * sauma- , was a Vedic ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians , and the subsequent Greater Indian and Greater Iranian cultures. It is frequently mentioned in the Rigveda , whose Soma Mandala ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
name of an intoxicant used in ancient Vedic ritual, prepared from the juice of some East Indian plant, 1785, from Sanskrit soma , from PIE *seu- "juice," from root *seue- (2) "to take liquid" (see sup (v.2)). In "Brave New World" (1932), the name of a state-dispensed ...
Usage examples of soma.
A neuron consists of a soma, which is its central cell body, and an axon and dendrites.
The axon and dendrites are thin branching tubes that form tree-like structures coming out of the soma.
Bertram, Bedel of the Fowlers, has announced that if this so-called guru can cure his blindness, he will take the soma.
Nyce had ever worn to the Cacodemonic Carnivals on Soma Plume: sixty-one outfits, all set with precious jewels and sewn with Thread of Sirius.
In much the same manner that you arrived long years ago with your supposed holy men who wished to give all soma and make clannless ones of them, so now you attempt to cozen us with lofty praise of your laws.
On the desk lay a pin, which Jarrock picked up with one hand while with the other he reached to a vase containing soma roses.
But with the final avatara of Lord Vishnu, that of Kalian, soma was again found by a great guru who deciphered the ancient writings of Mohenjo-Daro, in the Indus valley of Mother Earth.
Soma, Lota, take the little ones to the banyan tree and finish telling them their story.
Oudeni gar eoike to anthropou soma ton epi sarkophagia gegonoton, ou grupotes cheilous, ouk ozutes onuchos, ou traxutes odontos prosestin, ou koilias eutonia kai pneumatos thermotes, trepsai kai katergasasthai dunate to baru kai kreodes all autothen e phusis te leioteti ton odonton kai te smikroteti tou stomatos kai te malakoteti tes glosses kai te pros pepsin ambluteti tou pneumatos, exomnutai ten sarkophagian.
In the province of Shimosa, and the district of Soma, Hotta Kaga no Kami was lord of the castle of Sakura, and chief of a family which had for generations produced famous warriors.
In the Santa Barbara hacienda, Brandy and me found Benzedrine and Dexedrine and old Quaaludes and Soma and some Dialose capsules that turned out to be a fecal softener.
Lord Vishnu, in his first avatara as Lord Matsya, gave to man the blessing of soma.
But with the final avatara of Lord Vishnu, that of Kalian, soma was again found by a great guru who deciphered the ancient writings of Mohenjo-Daro, in the Indus valley of Mother Earth.
And here perhaps I can do the work of Kalkin, the final Avatara of Vishnu, by urging you and others to take the holy soma.
In the Santa Barbara hacienda, Brandy and me found Benzedrine and Dexedrine and old Quaaludes and Soma and some Dialose capsules that turned out to be a fecal softener.