Soma and Haoma: One Plant, Two Names, Two Sister Civilizations
Four thousand years ago, along the banks of the Oxus and across the plains of the Sapta Sindhu, two peoples shared the same gods, the same hymns, and a sacred plant whose name alone changed depending on which shore you stood on. On one side, the Vedic people called this plant soma. On the other, the Iranians of the Avesta named it haoma. A single consonant separates them — the Indo-Aryan s…




















