PuniCodex

The Authentic Orthography

𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀 Haoma

Sacred Plant, Immortality · The pressed one

Tier 2 Haoma
Haoma — Sacred Plant, Immortality
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The Authentic Name

Unicode restoration and ASCII comparison

Original Script

𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀

The name in its original Zoroastrian form. Haoma (𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀) is attested in the source tradition — “The pressed one”. Its original diacritics and script distinctions carry the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.

ASCII Constraint

haoma

The plain haoma form is identical to the Unicode restoration. Because this name is already written in Latin letters, no diacritics, stress, or script information were lost — only capitalization differs.

Unicode Restoration

Haoma

The Unicode restoration does not need to recover lost marks for Haoma. Its value is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the reconstruction of erased orthography. The domain is readable as-is to both DNS and humanity.

Punycode Encoding
Haoma.com → haoma.com

The non-ASCII characters in Haoma are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Haoma.

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Original Script & Provenance

How Haoma travels from ancient script to the modern URL

𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀
Avestan
Haoma
𐬵
Letter
𐬀
Letter
𐬊
Letter
𐬨
Letter
𐬀
Letter
Original Script
𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀
Indigenous writing
Transliteration
Haoma
Scholarly reading
Unicode Restoration
Haoma
Registrable form
Punycode
haoma.com
DNS encoding
ASCII Fallback
haoma
Flattened spelling

From original to transliteration

  1. Haoma is the sacred plant and divinity praised in Yasna 9–10.
  2. The initial h is the Avestan letter h (𐬵).
  3. The diphthong ao is written with a (𐬀) followed by o (𐬊).
AvestaTier 2
BartholomaeTier 2
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Name Variations

Owned, ideal, and ASCII forms of Haoma

Canonical Restoration

Haoma

Restores 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀. The full Unicode restoration. haoma.com is not in the PuniCodex collection — it is watched for release; if it drops, this temple upgrades to an owned flagship.

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Pronunciation

How Haoma was spoken

/haoma/ Restored scholarly form
haoma The canonical restored form Haoma.
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Haoma

Sacred Plant

Haoma is sacred plant, immortality. The name means "The pressed one" and belongs to the zoroastrian tradition.

Sacred Name

The restoration Haoma returns the figure to scholarly recognition.

Sacred Plant

Central domain: sacred plant, immortality.

Living Tradition

Honored in zoroastrian myth, cult, and cultural memory.

Unicode Restoration

Preserved as a flagship temple despite the unregistrable plain-ASCII form.

Sacred Symbols

Name The restored form Haoma, carrying scholarly and cultural weight.
Domain Sacred Plant, Immortality
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Mythology

Stories of Haoma

The stories of Haoma place sacred plant, immortality at the center of a living mythological world.

Myth

Origins

Haoma appears in zoroastrian tradition as sacred plant, immortality. The name's meaning, "The pressed one", shapes the narratives told about this figure.

Cult

Worship and Memory

Devotees and later tradition-keepers preserved Haoma in ritual, text, and iconography, ensuring the name survived into the modern scholarly record.

Go Deeper

Extended Lore

The lore you have read is the surface — the living myth. Beneath it lies the scholarship: etymology, reconstructed pronunciation, Unicode character breakdown, and the cultural legacy of Haoma.

Enter Extended Lore
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