HAOMA. Both a "being worthy of worship" (yazata), or deified personification, and a substance ingested during Zoroastrian ritual sacrifices, haoma has an exact parallel in the soma of ancient India: *sauma, from the verb sav ("to...

(plural: somata) Soma is an alternative term for a CELL BODY; see...

SOMA is a Vedic god; a drink offered to the gods and shared among ritual participants; and the plant that yields the juice for this drink. Middle and late Vedic literature describe the classical Vedic rituals in detail, and among these rituals, the...

Soma (Sanskrit: सोमः), or Haoma (Avestan), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sauma-, was a ritual drink of importance among the early Indo-Iranians, and the later Vedic and greater Persian cultures. It is frequently mentioned in the Rigveda, which...

Jon Bailey isn't ashamed to admit that he still gets nervous onstage, with or without his band Belmondo. There's a bit more at stake for him, besides simply performing his songs well. "I can't avoid writing about my own personal experiences," said...

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The dollar dropped sharply against the yen in Asia Friday as short-term investors locked in profits and commodity prices fell.The dollar bought 118.36 yen on the Tokyo foreign exchange market at mid-afternoon, down from 119.10 yen late Thursday in New York. The euro fell to...

The Renault-Nissan auto alliance is not interested in buying DaimlerChrysler's loss-making Chrysler division, despite exploring a North American partnership last year, a Nissan official said Wednesday.Tokyo-based Nissan, 44 percent owned by Renault SA of France, is always open to new partnerships, but not right now...