Product Description: In Soma, Belgian artist Carsten Höller (born 1961) traces the myth of the titular healing drink made by Vedic nomads in northern India during the second century BC. Drinking soma was thought to provide access to the divine. This publication collects writings on soma, from the early eighteenth century to the present, on which Höller drew for his most recent hallucinatory installation...read more

Product Description: The definitive work on the ancient Hindu soma rituals mentioned in the Vedas and debated by scholars for decades.• The first book to identify the mysterious soma plant.• A breakthrough book that reenvisions the role of psychoactive plants in religion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Associated with wrath, gambling and, at the symbolic level, with darkness and misery, sura has been strongly condemned in Vedic literature. Yet, paradoxically, it has not just found its way into a Vedic sacrifice itself: called sautramani, but has even been sanctified in the rajasuya and punarabhisheka rituals as well...read more

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Product Description: Book by Bodewitz, H. W.

The author relates his investigations into the true identity of Soma, the mysterious god, plant, and plant juice referred to in the Rg Veda