soma
सोम somaThe sacred plant of Vedic ritual and the pressed juice offered in the great sacrifices, also deified as a god.
Where this term appears
- The Vedic Gods: Indra, Agni, and the world of the Rigveda Essentials
Indra drinks the sacred soma , swells with its force, takes up the thunderbolt forged for him, and strikes.
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
They are addressed to the gods of the Vedic world: Agni the fire, Indra the storm-king and dragon-slayer, Soma the pressed and deified plant, Ushas the dawn, Varuna the keeper of cosmic order.
- Tantric Alchemy: The Quest for the Immortal Body Lineages
The Rigveda already sings of soma , the pressed divine draught that gives the gods their vigour and their deathlessness, the archetype of every later elixir.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
Chandra, the cup of the sky Chandra is the Moon, and his oldest name, Soma, holds a mystery the tradition never fully resolved.
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
Candra, the Moon, also called Soma, had married the twenty-seven daughters of Daksha but loved only Rohini.
- The Vedic Age: A Civilization That Left No Ruins History
The yajna , the fire sacrifice, is the great act: offerings of butter, grain, and the pressed juice of soma poured into Agni , the fire, who carries them up to the gods.
- What is Diksha? Lineages
He is a grown man, a householder, a patron rich enough to commission a soma rite.
- Who is Shiva? Deities
Three hymns are addressed to him alone, RV 1.114, 2.33, and 7.46, with a fourth, RV 1.43, shared with Soma, and he appears in scattered verses elsewhere.