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Green Mouths and Singing Stones: Inside the Rigveda's Soma Workshop
Most writing about soma asks what the plant was. Ask instead how it was made, and a Bronze Age workshop appears: stalks bought off a cart, stones with green mouths, pits dug in the ground to amplify the noise, and a fleece filter that turned a juice into a god.