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Soma

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A pressed plant and its drink in Vedic hymn. Not a generic entheogen and not Zoroastrian haoma under another spelling.

Vedic tradition

Soma appears in Vedic tradition.
The Ṛgveda hymns soma as a pressed plant and its drink in Vedic rite. South Asian sacrificial speech, not Zoroastrian haoma under another spelling.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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Soma is used in Offerings.
The Ṛgveda presses soma as a plant-gift poured in Vedic rite. A named South Asian offering-job for that plant, not Zoroastrian haoma, and not the appears_in tradition row already stored.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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sources

The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)
Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.