NOUN
- leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink
How To Use haoma In A Sentence
- A sacred meal was celebrated of bread and haoma juice for which in the West wine was substituted. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- The precious haoma, the drink of immortality, not only conduced in the case of mankind to eternal life, but was likewise a drink for the gods themselves. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- Fire worship was central to the Aryans and to their Vedic and Avestan expressions, as was the tradition of the holy drink - the Vedic soma and the Avestan haoma.
- The soma-haoma, a drink-offering common to both Indian Vedism and Iranian Parseeism, must be dated back to primeval times, when the Indians and the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- This Iranian haoma is doubtlessly identical with the Indian soma, the intoxicating juice of which The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- Greek gods, or the haoma of the Iranians, or the soma of the ancient The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
- In the later Avesta this drink, originally only a medium of cult, was formally deified, and identified with the divinity; nay even the very vessels used in the fabrication of this drink from the haoma branches were celebrated and adored in hymns of praise. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- The restaurant also provides traditional dim sum, such as date paste shortbread and shaomai - the steamed buns stuffed with glutinous rice, diced meat and mushroom.
- The haoma, as the oldest sacrifice, calls for particular mention; manufactured out of the narcotic juice of a certain plant and used as a drink-offering, it was identified with the Deity Himself and given to the faithful as a means of procuring immortality. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- Common to the Magi and their Zoroastrian successors (as well as the similar traditions of the Indian Brahmans) was the admittedly intoxicating botanical sacrament called haoma/soma. Cannabis Culture Magazine
