![]() ![]() Together these peoples are called today the Indo-Iranians. They were closely related to the people who at or about the same time occupied what came to be known as the Iranian plateau, this name – Iran – being cognate with “Aryan “. They arrived on the scene with a fully developed religion, elaborate rituals performed by a tightly organized priesthood, a well-rounded complement of gods and goddesses in their pantheon, and a rich mythology telling of the doings of these divinities. They sowed grain and bred cattle, horses, and sheep. They were hard fighters driving horse-drawn chariots. Some 3,500 years ago, in the middle of the second millennium before Christ, a people that called themselves Aryans swept down from the north through Afghanistan and occupied the valleys of the Indus. This work is referred to in the following pages as ” Soma”. Note: This paper is based upon the author’s “SOMA, Divine Mushroom of Immortality “, published in 1969 in New York by Harcourt Brace & World Inc., and in The Hague by Mouton. ![]()
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