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In the tradition of Lassen's 'Aryan–Semitic' dichotomy, French orientalist Ernest Renan (1823–1892) portrayed 'Semites' as 'non-Aryans', and the Aryans as the master race destined to shape human destiny. Similarly, Swiss linguist Adolphe Pictet (1799–1875) identified the Aryans as the chosen race and direct ancestors of Europeans ...
By the 1930s, the concept had been associated with both Nazism and Nordicism, [14] and used to support the white supremacist ideology of Aryanism that portrayed the Aryan race as a "master race", [15] with non-Aryans regarded as racially inferior (Untermensch, lit. ' subhuman ') and an existential threat that was to be exterminated. [16]
"Proto-Dasa" Indo-Aryans establishing themselves in the existing BMAC settlements, defeated by "Proto-Rigvedic" Indo-Aryans around 1700 1900–1400 BC Cemetery H Indian Dasa 1800–1000 BC Alakul-Fedorovo Indo-Aryan, including "Proto–Sauma-Aryan" practicing the Soma cult 1700–1400 BC early Swat culture Proto-Rigvedic 1700–1500 BC late BMAC
The Indo-Aryans were united by shared cultural norms and language, referred to as aryā 'noble'. Over the last four millennia, the Indo-Aryan culture has evolved particularly inside India itself, but its origins are in the conflation of values and heritage of the Indo-Aryan and indigenous people groups of India. [20]
Aryan religion may refer to: Historical Vedic religion; Historical Indian religions more generally Hinduism; The reconstructed Proto-Indo-Iranian religion; The reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion; In early 20th century occultism, religions supposedly considered native to the "Aryan race", see Ariosophy
[39] One group were the Indo-Aryans who founded the Mitanni kingdom in northern Syria; [40] (c. 1500 – c. 1300 BC) the other group were the Vedic people. [41] Christopher I. Beckwith suggests that the Wusun, an Indo-European Caucasian people of Inner Asia in antiquity, were also of Indo-Aryan origin. [42]
The ethnonym Alān is a dialectal variant of the Old Iranian *Aryāna, itself derived from the root arya-, meaning 'Aryan', the common self-designation of Indo-Iranian peoples. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 1 ] It probably came in use in the early history of the Alans for the purpose of uniting a heterogeneous group of tribes through the invocation of a ...
Christian Identity (also known as Identity Christianity [1]) is an interpretation of Christianity which advocates the belief that only Celtic and Germanic peoples, such as the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic nations, or the Aryan race and kindred peoples, are the descendants of the ancient Israelites and are therefore God's "chosen people".