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Blue tide : the search for soma
- Title
- Blue tide : the search for soma / Mike Jay.
- Author
- Jay, Mike, 1959-
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Autonomedia, c1999.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 99-14718 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 182 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The Rig Veda, the earliest sacred text of the ancient Indo-Europeans, includes dozens of hymns in praise of this psychedelic plant which, when drunk, takes its subjects to the realm of the gods. But, in the later Hindu tradition, soma is declared to have been lost, and its use abandoned. The botanical identity of soma remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of the ancient world. Blue Tide tells the story of the search for soma, and uses a diverse range of approachestravel and ethnography, science and narrative history, detective story and first-person drug experiencesto examine the question of its nature and identity.
- Subjects
- Call Number
- JFE 99-14718
- ISBN
- 1570270880
- OCLC
- 43037483
- Author
- Jay, Mike, 1959-
- Title
- Blue tide : the search for soma / Mike Jay.
- Imprint
- Brooklyn, NY : Autonomedia, c1999.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 99-14718