The Sacred Mountain of Haoma and Soma

Across the high ranges of the HinduKush, the ancient mountain known in Avestan scripture as HarāBərəzaitī has long been treated as myth. This book reveals that the sacred summit is real - FalakSar, the towering peak of the UshuValley - and that its rediscovery transforms our understanding of Indo-Iranian cosmology.Drawing on comparative ethnobotany, linguistic analysis, and ritual pharmacology, JessicaScottDunn identifies Cathaedulis(khat) as the original Haoma/Soma, the plant of divine inspiration described in both Zoroastrian and Vedic texts. Through this lens, the book traces a living continuum of sacred medicine linking the fire temples of ancientPersia, the trade routes ofGujarat, and the highland healing traditions ofAsiaandAfrica.This revised edition reframes the Indo-Iranian world as a unified system of geography, ritual, and plant science - a synthesis that reconnects mythic landscape with historical reality and restores the forgotten heart of the world's oldest pharmacological tradition.

Pagina's: 82, Paperback, Independently published