In Old Iranian religion, a deified plant from whose sap an intoxicating drink was extracted, which was used in sacrificial ceremonies (cf. → Soma in India). Haoma is lord of all curative plants, and confers...

Haoma is the Avestan language name of a plant and its divinity, both of which play a role in Zoroastrian doctrine and in later Persian culture and mythology. The Middle Persian form of the name is hōm, which continues to be the name in Modern Persian...