haoma

• Liane sans feuilles d'Inde orientale dont le suc laiteux et acide servait autrefois à préparer une boisson enivrante.

A noun referring to a leafless East Indian vine whose sour milky juice was formerly used to make an intoxicating drink.

1. Sacred plant in ZoroastrianismC2formal

   A leafless East Indian vine whose sour milky juice was historically used to prepare an intoxicating ritual drink.

   Haoma (plante sacrée du zoroastrisme)

   • The priests prepared the haoma for the sacred ceremony.
   • Ancient texts describe the extraction of juice from the haoma plant.
   • Haoma was considered a divine plant in Zoroastrian tradition.

   Synonymessoma