Som vs Soma - What's the difference?
som | soma |
(anatomy) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
(cytology) The bulbous part of a neuron, containing the cell nucleus.
A ritual drink in ancient Vedic and Persian cultures, dating to common Indo-Iranian period.
* 2006 , Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation , Atlantic Books 2007, p. 82:
(by extension) any kind of intoxicating drug
As a noun som
is seam.As a proper noun soma is
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* somatic * somiteEtymology 2
From (etyl) . (wikipedia soma)Noun
(-)- Once he had drunk the intoxicating soma , he experienced an ascent to the gods without having to die a violent death, as in the old ritual.