Zoroastrianism In Hinduism

Hinduism is a religion that has a lot of Gods, it is reported that there are about 330 million different Hindu Gods. All the different Hindu Gods have different purposes and thus as a represent one awesome, formless, limitless God.

One of the very interested topics of Hinduism is Soma. Soma is a plant, a drink that was brewed from that very plant. He is also the God of the moon (alternatively Chandra), God of the poets. He is the place where dead people end up and also the divine cure for evil. It is said the Soma moves and courses through all living things. Soma is basically, in my opinion a feeling of intoxication and being ‘high’. When a person or mortal is subject to heavy intoxication like Alcohol, Nicotine, and various other drugs they

The meaning is often connected to religious rituals. It is believed that Soma was brought in from the Aryans along with their culture and religion when they came a settled in North India. The Soma is not only found in Hinduism but also in Zoroastrianism. In Zoroastrianism it is called Haoma (Avestan) and is the exact same definition Soma. There’s not much of comparison between Soma and Haoma and the difference between the Vedic and Zoroastrian Rituals. This is a proof that Aryans did actually migrate into present-day India from present day

Since by drinking Soma people were given ‘supernatural powers’, gradually Soma became portrayed as a God (or deva). Unlike the typical Hindu Gods, Soma had very few Human qualities and was rarely portrayed as an adult human. In the Vedas soma is most commonly portrayed as a bird or bull. I think it is because a bird (in terms of humans) can fly great heights and go ‘high’ up the sky. Later in the Vedas, Soma was portrayed as a lunar deity such as the moon and was identified as a silver crescent. According to Hindu Mythology, Soma was married to Rohini and 27 other wives (who were the daughter of the Ancient Creator God, Daksha). Soma gave more attention to Rohini compared to his other wives, which made the angry. The 27 other wives complained to Daksha and as a result Soma was cursed to die temporarily in a repeated process. This process of death, according to the myth, is the fading of the moon every 15 days and the waxing of the moon every 15 days symbolizing Soma being born again. In another story of Soma, he was filled with lust and kidnapped Tara, the wife of the God, Brihaspati. The Gods waged war of him forcing him to release Tara, but then he didn’t. Finally Brahma convinced Soma to release Tara, and as a surprise Tara had a child and it was