Wasson R. Gordon. Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. — xiii, 381 p.Soma: Divine Mushroom Of Immortality
The Problem
The Fly-agaric of Eurasia
The Ground Rules of the Search
Soma Was Not Alcoholic
The Roots, Leaves, Blossoms, Seed of Soma: Where Are They?
Soma Grew in the Mountains
The Two Forms of Soma
Epithets and Tropes for Soma in the RgVeda
Soma and the Fly
Words Used for Soma in the RgVeda
Miscellanea
Mani, Mushroom, Urine
The Marvelous HerbThe Post-Vedic History Of The Soma Plant
The Brdlimanas and the Srauta-sutras
Later Sanskrit Works
Early European References
Mid-Nineteenth Century
File Number
The Turn of the Century
Mukherjee and the Bhang Theory
Later Researches in the 20th CenturyNorthen Eurasia and the Fly-agaric
The Fly-agaric in Siberia: the Testimony of Explorers,
Travelers, and Anthropologists
The Linguistic Aspect: a Puzzling Word Cluster
Europe and the Fly-Agaric
Epilogue: The Tree of Life and the Marvelous HerbExhibits and Index
Citations from Rgveda