Larger and finer meanings are read into the older legends of the plants, and the universality of certain myths is expressed in the concurrence of ideas in the beginnings of the great religions. One of the first figures in the leading cosmologies is a tree of life guarded by a serpent. In the Judaic faith this was the tree in the garden of Eden the Scandinavians made it an ash, Ygdrasil Christians usually specify the tree as an apple, Hindus as a soma, Persians as a homa, Cambodians as a talok this early treee is the vine of Bacchus, the snake-entwined caduceus of Mercury, the twining creeper of the Eddas, the bohidruma of Buddha, the fig of Isaiah, the tree of Aesculapius with the serpent around his trunk.
Quotes about soma (4 Quotes)
The action is really only happening in SoMa, ... It's not the financial district, it's not in the Marina, and it's not in the Mission District really. If you're starting a company, SoMa is where you go.
The food eaten by hermits in the forest, milk, Soma juice, meat which is not prepared with spices , and salt unprepared by art, are called, on account of their nature, sacrificial food.
Food given to a seller of Soma becomes ordure, that given to a physician pus and blood, but that presented to a temple priest is lost, and that given to a usurer finds no place in the world of the gods .