Facts about Haoma

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   A white flowering plant, Ephedra, is among the leading scholarly candidates identified as the original source of haoma used in ancient Iranian rituals.

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   Yasna 9 and 10 of the Avesta are hymns dedicated entirely to haoma, personified as a god who converses with the prophet Zarathustra.

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   Consuming haoma was believed to confer immortality, strength, and healing upon its devotees in ancient Iranian religious practice.

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   The ritual preparation of haoma involved pressing the plant's stems to extract its sacred juice, a practice described in the Avesta.

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   In Zoroastrian tradition, haoma is both a divine plant and the yazata (deity) associated with that plant, paralleling the Vedic concept of soma.

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