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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
<marcomoretti69@...> wrote:> I believe that soma is the amanita
muscaria. It is a nice mushroom, > red with white spots. It is
possible to extract drinks from it, with > variable strength. In
many regions of the world people use it. In > Russia, for example,
in some district muscaria is used in funerals.
My view is that soma is electrum
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/monographs/Electrum.pdf As cited
at this URL, Joseph Needham also seems to suggest this: assem in Old
Egyptian means electrum (in the context of extraction of silver from
electrum).
Indian Alchemy: Soma in the Veda:
http://www.mrmlbooks.com/cgi-
bin/bookware.cgi?publisher=f&searching=anywhere