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The word arya first appears in the ancient Indian sacred text the Rigveda and the Iranian Gathas. The Indian and Iranian terms are directly derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *arya-, apparently a self-designation of the Proto-Indo-Iranians. The term is also continued in Old Persian inscriptions and other Persian sources from c. 500 BCE onwards, the word Iran itself being derived from it (See Airyanem Vaejah). India is also referred to as Aryavarta, which means "the Land of Aryans". Modern Iranians consider their ethnicity and stock as being "Aryan", and in historical Hinduism, the Sanskrit term took on a spiritual meaning of "noble".
Since, in the 19th cenury, the Indo-Iranians were the most ancient known speakers of "Indo-European" languages, the word Aryan was adopted to refer not only to the Indo-Iranian people, but also to Indo-European speakers as a whole, including the Romans, Greeks, the Germans, Balts, Celts and Slavs. It was argued that all of these languages originated from a common root - spoken by an ancient people who must have been the ancestors of the European, Iranian, and North Indian people. It should be noted that this usage is obsolete. In English, "Aryan", if used at all, is synonymous to Indo-Iranian, or in particular Proto-Indo-Iranian.
The idea that the north Europeans were the "purest" of these people was later propagated most assiduously by the Comte de Gobineau and by other writers, most notably his disciple Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who wrote of an "Aryan race" – those who spoke Indo-European languages and were claimed to be the "noblest" of people.
During the 19th century, it was commonly believed that the Aryan race originated in the southwestern steppes of present-day Russia, and including the Caucasus Mountains. The Steppe theory of Aryan origins was not the only one circulating during the nineteenth century, however. Many British, American and German scholars argued that the Aryans originated in ancient Germany or Scandinavia, or at least that in those countries the original Aryan ethnicity had been preserved. This idea was widespread in both intellectual and popular culture by the early twentieth century.
Originally posted by wang
I think the person who made this thread has been reading to much of "The secret doctrine" claiming that Aryans are decendants of Atlantis. I must say that you shouldnt base your believes on half baked theories from over a hundred years ago...
Originally posted by ARES
The nazis have stressed this,
Not all humans came from the same breeding grounds. We did not come from Africa like modern science suggests.
But all the white people today are descendendants from the Atlanteans.
And Atlantis was the fatherland for all aryans as we know it.
Think about it, the Atlanteans were said to have blonde hair blue eyes and light skin,
and us surviving whites today are their ancestors, from Nordics (germans, Danish people, Sweedish people, etc) to Caucasians (Italians, Spanards, etc)
And all of our european languages that everyone speaks all have common roots to the Atlantean langauage
Just think about this all.
We did not come from Africa like modern science suggests.
Think about it, the Atlanteans were said to have blonde hair blue eyes and light skin,
And all of our european languages that everyone speaks all have common roots to the Atlantean langauage
Originally posted by Kotaro_Fuma
intresting....one quick question where did white people(blond hair blue eyes) come from? i always thought colored skin was better (sun protection) and i think i read when animals have blue eyes that they have bad vision or something like that. are they just a genetic mutation or did they "adapt" those features for some purpose.
Originally posted by Nygdan
honestly man, where'd you get this idea? What in teh disney channel said this? You mean that movie about atlantis? The people in it were white? Or was disney actually saying that the atlantians were the first whites?
Also, don't feel bad for bringing up a whacky idea, its not the first time it's happened here. I used to know someone who thought that 'white people' were actually planted on earth by aliens, and that the other races were the ones that naturally evolved here, and that the aliens were using earth as a penal colony, like the brits did with australia.
[edit on 5-4-2006 by Nygdan]
Originally posted by 9ine_Lives
This is believeable, so what was the orginal launguage? English? Latin? i think its strange how soo many launguages have came about over thousands of years and what their origins were. pretty much each country had their own language and their own distinct physical apearance, to say they the atlanteans were aliens is not far fetched at all -every theory is possible.