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Haoma and harmaline : the botanical identity of the Indo-Iranian sacred hallucinogen "soma" and its legacy in religion, language, and Middle-Eastern folklore / David Stophlet Flattery and Martin Schwartz.
- Title
- Haoma and harmaline : the botanical identity of the Indo-Iranian sacred hallucinogen "soma" and its legacy in religion, language, and Middle-Eastern folklore / David Stophlet Flattery and Martin Schwartz.
- Author
- Flattery, David Stophlet.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1989.
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- Additional Authors
- Schwartz, Martin.
- Description
- vii, 211 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- University of California publications. Near Eastern studies ; v. 21
- Uniform Title
- University of California publications. Near Eastern studies ; v. 21.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Pharmacological correspondence -- Historical and geographical availability of Harmel -- Ethnobotanic continuity of Sauma in Iran -- The evidence of Zoroastrian rituals -- The historical persistence of the Sauma rites -- Summary of arguments showing identity of Sauma and Harmel / David Stophlet Flattery -- Pt. 2. Avestan passages relevant to Haoma -- Avestan terms for the Sauma plant -- Other names for Harmal / Martin Schwartz.
- ISBN
- 0520096274
- LCCN
- ^^^82021889^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library