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Soma and the Indo-European priesthood : cereal cultivation and the origins of religion /
This work traces the origins of religion to the ""Agricultural Revolution"" and is the first to do so. Through the ancient Vedic literature, the archaeological record, and through chemistry, the author identifies how early Indo-Europeans produced the Soma of the Rig-Veda, Haoma,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Algora Publishing,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This work traces the origins of religion to the ""Agricultural Revolution"" and is the first to do so. Through the ancient Vedic literature, the archaeological record, and through chemistry, the author identifies how early Indo-Europeans produced the Soma of the Rig-Veda, Haoma, and the Greek Kykeon, the center of the Greek Eleusinian Mysteries. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 235 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781628943535 162894353X |