Editing Haoma (section)

==Comparison of haoma/soma==
Beyond the establishment of a common origin of {{lang|ae-Latn|haoma}} and ''soma'' and numerous attempts to give that common origin a botanical identity, little has been done to compare the two. As [[Indologist]] Jan Houben also noted in the proceedings of a 1999 workshop on Haoma-Soma, "apart from occasional and dispersed remarks on similarities in structure and detail of Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, little has been done on the systematic comparison of the two".{{sfn|Houben|2003a}} As of 2003, no significant comparative review of cultural/sacred Haoma/Soma had extended beyond [[Alfred Hillebrandt]]'s 1891 comparison of the Vedic deity and the Zoroastrian divinity.{{sfn|Hillebrandt|1891}}

All more recent studies that address commonality have dealt only with botanical identification of proto-Indo-Iranian *{{lang|iir-Latn|sauma}}. Houben's workshop, the first of its kind, dealt with "the nature of the Soma/Haoma plant and the juice pressed from it" and that "the main topic of the workshop (was) the identity of the Soma/Haoma."{{sfn|Houben|2003b}}
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These often include a side-by-side enumeration of descriptions of the plant from the ancient texts, but usually focus on the Vedic attributes because of the lack of Avestan ones: only three chapters of the ''[[Yasna]]'' and some additional fragments among the ''Yashts'' deal with {{lang|ae-Latn|haoma}} (''cf.'': ''ca.'' 120 hymns of the [[Rig Veda]] that are dedicated to [[soma (drink)|soma]]).-->