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Ploughing the clouds : the search for Irish Soma

Title
Ploughing the clouds : the search for Irish Soma / Peter Lamborn Wilson.
Author
Wilson, Peter Lamborn.
Publication
San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books ; Monroe, OR : Subterranean Co. [distributor], ©1999.

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Description
150 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Veda
  • Soma
  • Celts > Ireland > Religion
  • Celts > Religion
  • Religion
  • Halluzinogen
  • Kult
  • Vor- und Frühgeschichte
  • Ireland > Religion
  • Ireland
  • Irland
  • Kelten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [138]-144) and index.
Contents
The use and elusiveness of psychotropic plants; the migrating Indo-Europeans; Irish Soma hypothesis -- Irish Soma: the evidence -- Interpretations -- Origins -- Vṛtra: Soma and sacrifice -- The second battle of Moytura -- Cows -- Vena and Fionn -- Indra, Agni, and Fionn -- Gandharvas and Maruts -- The firebird and the calendar -- Snakes and Chthonic power -- Women -- The architecture and cuisine of sacrifice -- One-eye -- The jealousy of the Gods and the origin of poetry.
ISBN
  • 0872863263
  • 9780872863262
LCCN
97000118
OCLC
  • ocm36284081
  • 36284081
  • SCSB-737874
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library