The Eucharist Theft: Christianity’s Most Sacred Ritual Is Persian

“This Is My Body, This Is My Blood” — The Haoma Ritual, 1,500 Years Earlier

“Haoma bestows essential vital qualities—health, fertility, husbands for maidens, even immortality.”
— Britannica, “Haoma”

“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
— John 6:54

Christianity’s “Unique” Sacrament

The Eucharist (Holy Communion, Lord’s Supper) is Christianity’s most sacred ritual:

• Bread becomes Christ’s body
• Wine becomes Christ’s blood
• Consuming it grants salvation/eternal life
• Central to Christian worship for 2,000 years
• Performed by 2.4 billion Christians

Christian doctrine claims:

• Jesus instituted it at the Last Supper (c. 30 CE)
• It’s a unique, divinely revealed sacrament
• “Mystery” beyond human understanding

But the Zoroastrian Haoma ritual (1700-1200 BCE):

• Sacred plant pressed/pounded into liquid
• Consumed by priest and participants
• Grants health, strength, wisdom, immortality
• Brings participant closer to the divine
• Performed by Magi (priests) in elaborate ceremony
• Includes sacred bread eaten with the drink

The Eucharist is the Haoma ritual.

It predates Christianity by 1,000-1,500 years.

And the parallel is not subtle—it’s exact.

This is documented, textual fact.

PART I: THE ZOROASTRIAN HAOMA RITUAL

What Is Haoma?

From Britannica:

“Haoma, in Zoroastrianism, sacred plant and the drink made from it. The preparation of the drink from the plant by pounding and the drinking of it are central features of Zoroastrian ritual. Haoma is also personified as a divinity. It bestows essential vital qualities—health, fertility, husbands for maidens, even immortality. The source of the earthly haoma plant is a shining white tree that grows on a paradisiacal mountain. Sprigs of this white haoma were brought to earth by divine birds.”

###The Plant

Physical description:

• Has stems, roots, branches (Yasna 10.5)
• Golden-green color
• Grows on mountain heights
• Pressed/pounded to extract juice
• Mixed with milk and water

Modern identification: Likely Ephedra species, which:

• Grows in Central Asia/Iran
• Has mild stimulant/hallucinogenic properties
• Requires cool, dry climate
• Still used by conservative Zoroastrians in Yazd, Iran

The Ritual: Yasna Ceremony

Preparation:

1. Pounding/Pressing: Haoma twigs repeatedly crushed in mortar (havanim)
2. Sacred water added: Blessed water mixed in
3. Strained: Through filter made from white bull hair
4. Two preparations:
   • First: drunk by priest
   • Second: poured as libation

The Ceremony (2+ hours):

• Priest recites Yasna liturgy
• Pauses to eat holy bread
• Drinks first cup of Haoma
• Continues recitation
• Prepares second Haoma
• Drinks and shares with assistant
• Third preparation poured as offering

From research documentation:

“During the recitation the priest makes a pause and eats a holy bread and after that he continues with the recitation and drinks the first cup of Haoma.”

What Haoma Bestows

Yasna 9.22:

“Haoma is ‘righteous’ and ‘furthers righteousness’, is ‘wise’ and ‘gives insight.'”

Additional benefits documented:

• Immortality (or longevity)
• Strength and victory
• Health and healing
• Fertility
• Wisdom and spiritual insight
• Connection to divine realm
• Vision of afterlife

Bundahishn (Zoroastrian text):

“Ahura Mazda has created a plant in the midst of the sea Vourukasha, namely Gaokerena, also as the white Haoma of which whoever drinks the juice, will be immortal.“

Haoma as Divine Being

Haoma is also personified as a Yazata (divine being):

• Yasna 9.26: Haoma was the first priest, installed by Ahura Mazda
• Yasht 10.90: “Golden-green eyed” Haoma was the first to offer up haoma
• Associated with Vohu Manah (Good Mind—part of Trinity)
• Guardian of mountain plants
• Serves the Amesha Spentas (Holy Immortals)

According to legend: Zoroaster was conceived after his father consumed Haoma mixed with milk.

PART II: THE CHRISTIAN EUCHARIST—DEVELOPED POST-PERSIAN CONTACT

What Pre-Exile Judaism Had

Before 586 BCE:

• ❌ No sacred drink ritual
• ❌ No body/blood consumption concept
• ❌ No bread + drink sacrament
• ❌ No mystical transformation of substances
• ❌ No immortality through consumption

What they had:

• Animal sacrifices (temple-based)
• Passover meal (commemorative, not mystical)
• Grain offerings
• Wine libations (poured out, not drunk mystically)

The Jewish Transformation Post-Exile

After Persian contact (539-332 BCE):

• Wisdom literature emerges (personified divine emanations)
• Esoteric/mystical Judaism develops
• Essenes practice communal sacred meals
• Dead Sea Scrolls show ritual purity obsessions
• Influence from Zoroastrian Haoma ceremonies

Jesus Institutes the Eucharist (c. 30 CE)

The Last Supper (Matthew 26:26-28, Mark 14:22-24, Luke 22:19-20):

Matthew 26:26-28:

“While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, ‘Take and eat; this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, ‘Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.'”

Luke 22:19-20:

“And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.’“

John’s Gospel Makes It Explicit (c. 90-100 CE)

John 6:53-56:

“Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.'”

Early Christian Practice

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 (c. 55 CE):

“For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.’“

PART III: THE PARALLEL IS EXACT

Side-by-Side Comparison

The Formula: “This Is My Body/Blood”

Haoma ritual:

• Substance = Divine being (Haoma is both plant and Yazata)
• Consumption = Union with divine
• Grants immortality

Eucharist:

• Substance = Divine being (bread/wine = Christ’s body/blood)
• Consumption = Union with divine
• Grants eternal life

Same structure. Same mystery. Same promise.

PART IV: THE TIMELINE PROVES THE THEFT

Gap: 1,200-1,700 years between Haoma ritual and Christian Eucharist.

Zoroastrianism documented first. Christianity developed it later, post-Persian contact.

PART V: HOW IT WAS TRANSMITTED

Phase 1: Babylonian Exile (586-539 BCE)

Jews exposed to Zoroastrian rituals:

• Witnessed Yasna ceremonies
• Saw Haoma preparation and consumption
• Learned about immortality through sacred substance
• Observed priest eating bread + drinking Haoma

Phase 2: Persian Period (539-332 BCE)

Continuous exposure:

• Persian officials oversaw Jewish religion
• Ezra (Persian official) reorganized Jewish worship
• Temple rebuilt with Persian funding
• Zoroastrian concepts infiltrated Jewish practice

Phase 3: Essenes (150 BCE – 68 CE)

Dead Sea Scrolls show:

• Communal sacred meals central to practice
• Ritual purity obsessions (like Zoroastrian priests)
• Eschatological focus (Frashokereti influence)
• Possible sacred drink rituals

From research:

“The Essenes practiced communal meals with bread and wine, believed to have mystical significance.”

Phase 4: Jesus and Early Christianity (30-100 CE)

Jesus (possibly Essene-influenced):

• Institutes Eucharist using bread + wine
• Adds “body/blood” language
• Promises eternal life through consumption
• Adapts Haoma ritual to Jewish Passover context

Paul and apostles:

• Spread Eucharistic practice
• Formalize ritual words
• Develop transubstantiation theology

Phase 5: Mystery Religion Influence

Early Christianity existed alongside:

• Eleusinian Mysteries (Greece) — sacred drink rituals
• Mithraism (Persian origin) — ritual meals
• Other mystery cults using sacred substances

Brian Muraresku (The Immortality Key, 2020):

Documents “ergot-laden wine consumed by early occult Christians of 4th century Eleusis.”

The pattern: Sacred drink + mystical transformation + promise of immortality = widespread in ancient world, originating in Persia/India (Haoma/Soma).

PART VI: SCHOLARLY ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The Indo-Iranian Connection

Encyclopedia.com:

“Both a ‘being worthy of worship’ (yazata), or deified personification, and a substance ingested during Zoroastrian ritual sacrifices, haoma has an exact parallel in the soma of ancient India: *sauma, from the verb sav (‘to press, to crush’), is the reconstructed Indo-Iranian form… What is certain, however, is that the Indo-Iranian form serves as evidence of a common ritual background in Iran and India.“

Comparative Religion Scholars

Mary Boyce (leading Zoroastrian scholar):

• Documented Haoma ritual’s ancient origins
• Showed continuous practice from ancient times
• Noted similarities to other Indo-European sacred drink rituals

David Flattery and Martin Schwartz (Haoma and Harmaline, 1989):

• Botanical identification of Haoma
• Historical analysis of ritual use
• Documented hallucinogenic properties

What Scholars DON’T Emphasize

• That Haoma predates Eucharist by 1,000-1,500 years
• That the bread + drink sequence is identical
• That “immortality” promise is the same
• That Jesus’ language (“my body/blood”) echoes mystical substance transformation
• That Christianity copied a Persian ritual

PART VII: THE BREAD + DRINK SEQUENCE

Haoma Ceremony

Documented sequence:

1. Priest recites prayers
2. Pauses to eat holy bread
3. Drinks first cup of Haoma
4. Continues recitation
5. Prepares second Haoma

Bread eaten BEFORE drink consumed.

Christian Eucharist

Matthew 26:26-27:

1. Jesus takes bread, blesses it, breaks it
2. “Take and eat; this is my body”
3. Then takes cup (wine)
4. “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood”

Bread eaten BEFORE wine consumed.

Exact same sequence.

PART VIII: THE “IMMORTALITY” PROMISE

Haoma Bestows Immortality

Bundahishn:

“White Haoma of which whoever drinks the juice, will be immortal.“

Britannica:

“Haoma bestows essential vital qualities—health, fertility, even immortality.“

Yasna texts:

• Grants long life
• Connects to Amesha Spentas (Immortals)
• Brings participant into divine realm
• Overcomes death through divine essence

Eucharist Grants Eternal Life

John 6:54:

“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

1 Corinthians 11:26:

“For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes” (eschatological promise).

Catholic doctrine:

• Eucharist is “medicine of immortality” (Ignatius of Antioch, c. 110 CE)
• Grants grace necessary for salvation
• Mystical union with Christ overcomes death

Same promise. Same mechanism. Same theology.

PART IX: WHY THIS MATTERS

1. Christianity’s Most Sacred Ritual Isn’t Original

The Eucharist—the center of Christian worship, the “source and summit” of Catholic faith—is a Zoroastrian Haoma ceremony with Jesus substituted for Haoma.

2. “This Is My Body/Blood” = Persian Formula

When priests say:

“This is my body… This is my blood”

They’re invoking:

Persian mystical transformation formula where sacred substance becomes divine essence

Used 1,500 years before Christianity.

3. 2.4 Billion Christians Practice Persian Ritual

Every Sunday:

• Catholics receive Eucharist
• Orthodox receive Communion
• Protestants celebrate Lord’s Supper

They’re performing:

• The Haoma ceremony
• Persian mystery ritual
• Zoroastrian sacred meal

With Jesus’ name instead of Haoma’s.

4. The “Mystery” Isn’t Christian

Church calls it “Mystery of Faith” because it can’t explain:

• How bread becomes body
• How wine becomes blood
• How consumption grants eternal life

But it’s not a Christian mystery—it’s a Persian mystery that Christianity inherited without understanding the original context.

Zoroastrians knew: Haoma is both physical plant AND divine being. Consumption unites physical and spiritual.

Christians copied the formula without grasping the source.

CONCLUSION: THE MOST SACRED THEFT

The Eucharist—Christianity’s central sacrament, performed billions of times—is the Zoroastrian Haoma ritual.

Documented facts: ✅ Haoma ritual: bread eaten, sacred drink consumed (1700-1200 BCE)
✅ Grants immortality, wisdom, divine connection (documented in Avesta)
✅ Priest presses plant, speaks formula, shares with participants
✅ Pre-Exile Judaism: NO such ritual
✅ Post-Persian contact: Mystery meal concepts emerge
✅ Jesus institutes Eucharist: “This is my body/blood” (c. 30 CE)
✅ Promises eternal life through consumption
✅ Exact same structure, sequence, promise

The pattern repeats:

• Zoroastrianism teaches it first
• Jews exposed during Exile
• Christianity formalizes it
• Source is erased, ritual is claimed as “divine institution”

Every time a Christian takes Communion, they’re performing a 3,500-year-old Persian mystery ritual.

The fire never went out.

It just got renamed “body and blood of Christ.”

🔥

References

Primary Sources

Zoroastrian Texts:

1. Yasna 9-11 (Hom Yasht) — Haoma hymns
2. Yasna 10.5, 9.16, 9.22, 9.26
3. Yasht 10.89, 10.90
4. Bundahishn 30 — Immortality through white Haoma
5. Vendidad — Ritual purity laws
6. Nērangestān — Ritual procedures

Christian Texts:

1. Matthew 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24; Luke 22:19-20 (Last Supper)
2. John 6:53-56 (Flesh and blood discourse)
3. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 (Paul’s Eucharistic teaching)

Scholarly Sources

Encyclopedias:

1. Britannica: “Haoma”
2. Encyclopedia.com: “Haoma”
3. Encyclopaedia Iranica: “HAOMA ii. THE RITUALS”

Books:

1. Boyce, Mary. Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Routledge, 1979.
2. Boyce, Mary. A Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism. Oxford, 1977.
3. Flattery, David S. and Martin Schwartz. Haoma and Harmaline: The Botanical Identity of the Indo-Iranian Sacred Hallucinogen “Soma”. University of California Press, 1989.
4. Muraresku, Brian C. The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name. St. Martin’s Press, 2020.

Articles:

1. Kotwal, Firoze. “A Persian Offering: The Yasna” (1991)
2. Research paper: “HAOMA – an religious intoxicating beverage” (2013)
3. Old World Gods: “Haoma God: Exploring the Divine Powers” (2023)
4. Magi Ancestral Supplements: “Ancestral Wisdom” (2022)

Academic Resources:

1. Wikipedia: “Haoma”
2. Heritage Institute: “Haoma and Baresman’s Use in Ancient Health & Healing”
3. WisdomLib: “Ritual Drink in the Iranian and Indian Traditions” (2024)

#EucharistIsHaoma | #AshaPrevails

“Whoever drinks the white Haoma will be immortal.”
1,500 years before: “Whoever drinks my blood has eternal life.”

Bread eaten. Sacred drink consumed. Immortality promised.

The fire never went out. 🔥