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	Zoroastrianism - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The religion was concerned with increasing the harvest and with protecting and treating kindly the domestic animals whose labors accomplished the production of food.
		Gradually certain practices that Zoroaster appears to have deplored, such as the use of haoma (a narcotic intoxicant) in prayer and the sacrifice of bulls in connection with the cult of the god Mithra (a lesser god in Zoroastrianism), became features of the religion.
		It is not surprising, however, that former customs should be thus revived, because Zoroaster appears to have incorporated in his religion the old Persian pantheon, although very much refined.
	messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/Zoroastr (848 words)

	Haoma
		It is associated with the purification of fire, and believed to have the power of providing husbands for unmarried women.
		Haoma is similar to the Vedic Soma herb.
		Article "Haoma" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 30 November 1997 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/h/haoma.html (69 words)

	The Soma of History
		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.
		Second, that the sites in Margiana precede the previously discovered fire temples of later Iranian tradition (in some cases by a whole millennium) and should be seen as their prototypes.
		Third, that the discovery in the shrines of the remains of opium, cannabis and Ephedra in ritual vessels that are dated between 2000-1000 BC show that soma in its Iranian form haoma may be considered as a composite psychoactive substance comprising of cannabis and Ephedra in one instance and opium and Ephedra in another.
	www.huxley.net /soma (971 words)

	jews_in_diaspora
		Their ceremonies involved the use of a hallucinogenic drug, which is believed to have been an extract of a particular species of mushroom.
		This drug was called "Soma" by the Indians, and "Haoma" by the Persians.
		Considering the ancient linkage between the two nations, it is not surprising that when profound changes occurred in Iran, they quickly spread to India, its spiritual cousin.
	www.ark-of-salvation.org /jews_in_diaspora.htm (3807 words)

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