The ancient Persian haoma is cognate with the Vedic homa or fire rites that accompany the soma of the Brahmins. |
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Members of the church revere cannabis as both a sacrament and a deity, identifying it with the Zoroastrian haoma and the Vedic soma. |
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Sarianidi has interpreted them as drinking tubes for sipping an opium-ephedra drink similar to haoma. |
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Indo-European nomads brought specific doctrines, such as the soma or haoma, that were absorbed by and merged with local indigenous traditions of shamanism and animism. |
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