This work traces the origins of religion to the "e;Agricultural Revolution"e; and is the first to do so. Through the ancient Vedic literature, the archaeological record, and through chemistry, the author identifies how early Indo-Europeans produced the Soma of the Rig-Veda, Haoma, and the Greek Kykeon, the center of the Greek Eleusinian Mysteries.

William Scott Shelley is a scholar with inter-connecting expertise in the fields of botany and classical scientific literature. He has published a series of books investigating tribal origins in history and their role in the shaping our culture.