| Sarianidi has interpreted them as drinking tubes for sipping an opium-ephedra drink similar to haoma. |
| Indo-European nomads brought specific doctrines, such as the soma or haoma, that were absorbed by and merged with local indigenous traditions of shamanism and animism. |
| Used for crushing the haoma, an intoxicating plant, whose juice is used by the faithful. |
| Praise to thee, haoma, who by thine own power art a mighty king. |
| Can the haoma that has been touched with Nasu from a dead dog, or from a dead man, be made clean again? |
| Nor can the plant which the Parsis still import from Persia for the haoma rite be identical with the old soma. |
