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Kabbalah tree of life8/6/2023 The near identity of the two in ritual significance is considered by scholars to point to a salient feature of an Indo-Iranian religion antedating Zoroastrianism. Haoma is the Avestan form of the Sanskrit soma. Sprigs of this white haoma were brought to earth by divine birds. The source of the earthly haoma plant is a shining white tree that grows on a paradisiacal mountain. It bestows essential vital qualities-health, fertility, husbands for maidens, even immortality. ![]() The preparation of the drink from the plant by pounding and the drinking of it are central features of Zoroastrian ritual. Haoma is another sacred plant due to the drink made from it. Because Ahriman is responsible for all evil including death, while Ahura Mazda is responsible for all good (including life). The two fish are always staring at the frog and stay ready to react to it. As a reaction, Ahura Mazda created two kar fish staring at the frog to guard the tree. Ahriman (Ahreman, Angremainyu) created a frog to invade the tree and destroy it, aiming to prevent all trees from growing on the earth. Gaokerena is a large, sacred Haoma planted by Ahura Mazda. In the Avestan literature and Iranian mythology, there are several sacred vegetal icons related to life, eternality and cure, like: Amesha Spenta Amordad (guardian of plants, goddess of trees and immortality), Gaokerena (or white Haoma) a tree that its vivacity would certify continuance of life in universe, Bas tokhmak (a tree with remedial attribute, retentive of all herbal seeds, and destroyer of sorrow), Mashyа and Mashyane (parents of the human race in Iranian myths), Barsom (copped offshoots of pomegranate, gaz or Haoma that Zoroastrians use in their rituals), Haoma (a plant, unknown today, that was source of sacred potable), etc. ![]() Tree of life on a rhyton from Marlik, Iran, currently at the National Museum of Iran.
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