A sacred meal was celebrated of bread and haoma juice for which in the West wine was substituted. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The precious haoma, the drink of immortality, not only conduced in the case of mankind to eternal life, but was likewise a drink for the gods themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
In the later Avesta this drink, originally only a medium of cult, was formally deified, and identified with the divinity; nay even the very vessels used in the fabrication of this drink from the haoma branches were celebrated and adored in hymns of praise. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
The haoma, as the oldest sacrifice, calls for particular mention; manufactured out of the narcotic juice of a certain plant and used as a drink-offering, it was identified with the Deity Himself and given to the faithful as a means of procuring immortality. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
There is indeed no animal sacrifice; the leading rites are the offering of the quasi-divine haoma (the fermented juice of the a sacred plant, a species of Asclepias), the exact counterpart of the Vedic soma-sacrifice; the care of the Sacred Fire, the chanting of the ritual hymns and prayers, and passages of the Sacred. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Hanuman (see monkey), 368, 502. haoma, 16. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference
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