Haoma est potio sacra religionis Zoroastreae, saepe in Avesta relata. Potio appellatioque ad somam Vedicam cognatae sunt. E quadam planta montana extrahitur.

Bibliographia recensere

  • Kazim Abdullaev, "Sacred Plants and the Cultic Beverage Haoma" in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East vol. 30 (2010)
  • Mary Boyce, "Haoma. II, The Rituals" in Encyclopaedia Iranica vol. 11 fasc. 6 pp. 662-667
  • David Stophlet Flattery, Martin Schwartz, Haoma and Harmaline: the botanical identity of the Indo-Iranian sacred hallucinogen “Soma” and its legacy in religion, language, and Middle Eastern folklore. Berkeleiae, 1989
  • Ilya Gershevitch, "An Iranist's View of the Soma Controversy" in Philippe Gignoux, Ahmad Tafazzoli, edd., Mémorial Jean de Menasce (Lovanii, 1974) pp. 45-75
  • Gherardo Gnoli, "Lichtsymbolik in Alt-Iran: Haoma-Ritus und Erlöser-Mythos" in Antaios vol. 8 (1967) pp. 528-549
  • M. Hutter, "Weltliche und geistliche Berauschung: die Bedeutung von Haoma im Zoroastrismus" in Mitteilungen für Anthropologie und Religionsgeschichte vol. 11 (1996) pp. 187-208
  • Dieter Taillieu, "Haoma. I, Botany" in Encyclopaedia Iranica vol. 11 fasc. 6 pp. 659-662
  • Gernot L. Windfuhr, "Haoma/Soma, the Plant" in Papers in Honour of Professor Mary Boyce (Acta Iranica vols 24-25, 1985) vol. 1 pp. 699-726