[tied] Re: Indus Valley script decoded?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony Appleyard"
<a.appleyard@...> wrote:

> --- Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> > ... Obviously, there can hardly be a connection with so:ma / haoma
> > *sau.mVn-).
>
> The Rigveda says quite clearly that Soma was made by pressing stems
> etc of some sort of leafy plant. Thus it was not any metal, and it

is

> not a toadstool.

The R.veda never says (far less quite clearly) it was a *leafy*
plant. Neither leaves nor root nor seeds are mentioned -- only
_am.s'ú-_ 'stem; sprout'.

Sergei