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Soma

noun

(pl. somata, somas)

Leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink. Synonyms: haoma, Sarcostemma acidum.

Personification of a sacred intoxicating drink used in Vedic ritual.

Alternative names for the body of a human being. Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape. "He has a strong physique" , "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"

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"Soma" Quotes from Famous Books

... Earth; Agni, who lives on the fire of the sacrifice, on the domestic hearth, and in the lightnings of the sky, is the great Mediator between God and Man; Uschas, or the Dawn, leads forth the Gods in the morning to make their daily repast in the intoxicating Soma of Nature's offertory, of which the Priest could only compound, from simples a symbolical imitation. Then came the various Sun-Gods, Adityas or Solar Attributes, Surya the Heavenly, Savitri the Progenitor, Pashan the Nourisher, Bagha the ...

— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike

... sacrificer, the luminous, the mighty." [9] The sacrifices referred to were, in the early period, of domestic animals, the horse, ox or goat, the flesh of which was partaken of by the worshippers, and the sacred Soma-liquor, which was drunk by them; the prohibition or discouragement of animal sacrifices for the higher castes gradually came about at a later time, and was probably to a large extent due to the ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell

Words linked to "Soma" : soul, organic structure, human being, somebody, body, human, genus Sarcostemma, flesh, mortal, anatomy, vine, Sarcostemma, physical structure, homo, male body, female body, figure, man, juvenile body, person, adult body, shape, someone, individual, Hindu deity