[[the-sacred-cup-and-drink]] --- PII | `*sauma`/`*sawHma-` Skt. | [sóma](indic-soma.md) Ave. | [iranian-haoma](iranian-haoma.md) ## Biblio [[jamison1996]] [[z-he2011]] in China [[flattery-schwartz1989]] ## Topics ### Composition - [[psychadelics-entheogens]] - [Barley](*yewo%20"barley".md) might have been part of the soma mixture, and is what the other sacred drink [surā](sura.md) (likely the pre-soma ritual drink) was made from. In RV 8.2.3 barley is even identified with soma. ### PIE Myth: Non-Invitation to Soma Party - When Tvastr held a soma-drinking rite at his home, he did not invite Indra. This is because Indra had previously killed Tvastr’s son, the three-headed Visvarupa, in an earlier soma-related altercation. Indra turned up anyway and forcibly drank the soma, causing some disturbance in proceedings. Indeed, there would seem to be a parallel with the Norse God Loki here, who, in a story in the Poetic Edda, is not invited to join in drinking mead with the gods in the mead-hall, leading to a similarly awkward situation. [More on the Indic story here](tvastr&indra.md) - Is Eris & the Wedding of Paris and Helen apart of this? - Sleeping Beauty (maleficient, birth party) - Chinese zodiac? How they chose the animals of the Zodiac?