In his paper Mr. Wasson summarizes his argument in favor of a mushroom, the flyagaric called by mycologists Amanita muscaria, as the Soma of the Rig Veda. This mushroom was still being used as an ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The regular serial publication of the Society, issued quarterly, is the Journal of the American Oriental Society. The first volume, ...

The passages are flowery but fitting for an eclipse, describing the sun as being "pierced" with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings had caused the sun's "magic arts to vanish." When you ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that Vedic culture was isolated to India. Research reveals a musical link between ...

A flowery passage in a 6,000-year-old Hindu text may be the earliest known reference to a solar eclipse, describing the sun as being "pierced" with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings ...