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The Origins of Aryan People
By: M. Sadeq Nazmi-Afshar
I am Dariush, the great king, the king of kings
The king of many countries and many people
The king of this expansive land,
The son of Wishtaspa of Achaemenid,
Persian, the son of a Persian,
'Aryan', from the Aryan race
"From the Darius the Great's Inscription in
Naqshe-e-Rostam"
The above scripture is one of most valid written evidences
of the
history of the Aryan race, and as can be seen, Darius I
(Dariush in
persian), the Achaemenian king, in the 5th century BCE,
declares
himself a Persian and form the Aryan race. Herodotus, the
father of
history, writes (in his book: "History of Herodotus") at
the same
times: "In ancient times, the Greeks called Iranians
"Kaffe", but
they were renowned as Aryans among themselves and their
neighbors".
In another part of his book, Herodotus writes that the
Medians were
known as Aryans during a certain period. So in two of the
oldest
written human documents, the race of the Iranians have been
mentioned as Aryan.
On the other hand, in many contemporary books, one reads
that the
Aryans were not original residents of the land of Iran, and
that
they migrated to Iran from Central Asia or somewhere in the
north of
Europe. The point is that if some of the oldest written
records of
the human history confirm that the residents of the Iranian
Plateau
were Aryans, why should some claim otherwise?
We will discuss the origins of the Iranian race, and we
will try to
shed light on some unknown corners of history, which has
been mixed
with ignorance and lies.
We want to extract the facts out of centuries and millennia
and out
of paleontological studies, old and new, to prove that Iran
is the
original land of the Aryan race, that this people has never
migrated
to any other land, and it has defended its homelands for
centuries
on end.
There are all numerous reasons that the Aryan race has
undergone its
evolution from the primitive man to the white man in the
Iranian
Plateau. These reasons can be categorized as historical,
geographical, mythological, anthropological and
linguistically.
Against the reasons we will discuss, no valid evidence has
been
produced to prove that the Aryans migrated from Central
Asia or any
other place to Iran. What European historians have written
in this
regard is based on unscientific and unproven hypotheses
influenced
by anti-Iranian and political ideas.
The reason for the migration of Aryans from Iran to other
places of
the world should be searched in climatic events. At the end
of Ice
Age, as a result of excessive rainfall on the Alborz and
Zagros
Mountains and the melting of the ice accumulated on the
mountains,
the rivers flowing through the Iranian Plateau were much
larger than
they are today. Therefore there was a large lake in the
place where
to day is the Central Desert. One of the most interesting
mythological texts says in this regard:
"...In the second phase of the creation of the world, Ahura
Mazda
created the waters, and the waters flowed towards
Farakhekrat Sea
which covers one third of the world from the southern
outskirts of
Alborz."
With the continuous warming of the earth and the
decrease
in rainfall, this lake gradually dried up and the peoples
living
around it, who had a common language and Aryan culture, was
forced
to migrate from Iran. The routes of this great migration
are an
evidence for the central position of Iran, for the Aryan
peoples
have set Iran as the center and set out on migration in any
direction.
As a matter of fact, many Western historians have declined
to accept
the politicized version of history, admitting that Iran was
the
origin of the Aryan race.
Hegel writes in his book The Philosophy of history: "The
principle
of evolution begins with the history of Iran". Another
prominent
orientologist says that: A large part of our cultural and
material
legacy was unveiled in southwestern Asia the center of
which was
Iran." Petri, in a famous speech, said that "When Egypt had
only
just begun the art of pottery, the people of Susa (in Iran)
were
painting beautiful pictures on ceramics." this shows that
the
Iranian civilization was 3,000 years ahead of that of
Egypt, dating
back at least to 12,000 years ago. In other words, when
Central Asia
was totally buried under thick layers of ice, Iranians were
creating
pictures on earthenware, which indicates their art and
creativity.
Considering the existence of this 12,000 years-old
civilization in
Iran, would it not be unlikely that 6,000 years ago, a
group of
people spontaneously crossed the ice covered Siberian
lands,
suddenly wiping such a civilization off the earth. The word
Aryan
has roots in world that Iranians called themselves by
Ayria, meaning
free, noble and steady. The world Iran is derived from this
very
root, having been transformed from to Ayran Iran, meaning
the land
of the Aryans. This is the most ancient term applied to the
Iranian
Plateau, and such a term has never been detected anywhere
else in
the world, e.g. Europe or Turkistan.
The myth of Aryan's migration to Iran implies that a people
have
come to Iran from a remote land, giving their name to an
already
inhabited land which had no name, and that no trace of
their name
has been remained in their name has been remained in their
original
homeland. In historical records, Central Asia has been
mentioned as
the land of Sakas, Masagets, Touran, Soghd, Kharazm,
Khiveh, and
Turkistan, none of which words has any relation to the word
Aryan.
Paleontology is one of the sciences that confirm the
formation of
the white race in Ian. The Homo sapiens evolved from its
Neanderthal
ancestors in a 30,000- year process between 50,000 to
20,000 years
ago. In the Hutu and Kamarband caves near Behshahr, Iran,
bones of
men from different historical periods have been found,
showing that
a kind of human race has continuously dwelled in this area
and
evolved, meaning that there has been no migration.
In Babylonian and Assyrian sources, one of the largest
ancient
Iranian tribes has been mentioned as Kas Su, Kassi and
Kashi, which
in ancient languages and also in the modern language of the
people
of Gilan means fair-eyed and fair-faced. The name of
central city of
Kashan (Kassan) is a relic of this ancient Aryan tribe.
Many relics
of the Kassi tribe has also been found in the Khorramabad
region,
including paintings in the cave of Dusheh which date back
to 15,000
BC. In these paintings, people can be seen riding horses.
This is a
very valid evidence against the erroneous theories which
say that
the Aryans brought the horse form Central Asia to Iran
around 4,000
BC. Like its ancient riders, the horse is indigenous to
Iran since
at least 17,000 years ago.
Geology and meteorology confirm the evolution of man in the
Iranian
Plateau. The supporters of the theory of the migration of
the Aryans
from the north to Iran assume that with the fall in the
temperature
during the ice age, men were forced to migrate from the
north
(Central Asia) to the south (Iran). But the homo race was
formed at
the end of the third ice age, i.e. when the weather was
gradually
warming from the south to the north. Therefore, it would
have been
natural for people to migrate from south to north, and not
the other
way round. In fact, Central Asia was not habitable for men
for
thousands of years after the ice age, it only became so in
the
historic age as a result of the melting and receding of the
arctic
ice cap. Later groups of Iranians and Chinese migrated to
these
areas and formed the Turk race through cross breeding. The
Indians
are a hybrid of early Dravidians and the white Iranian
race, a fact,
which is evident from their dark skin.
So why have some European historians said that the origin
of the
Iranians is Central Asia? Because in 1833, an Oxford
University
professor used the term Aryan to describe a group of
languages with
common origins. Although he later admitted that parts of
his theory
were erroneous, the theory of an Aryan race was used by a
group of
romanticist writers and western historians in quest for an
ancient
identity.
The Germans, eyeing vast expanses of land in Central Asia,
called
themselves Aryans and cried for a return to the homeland.
They used
the Swastika, which, as a "wheel of Mithra (Sun/Fire)" used
to be
the arm of the Iranians since ancient times, as a Nazi
symbol, to
have an alibi to invade Russia.
The French, British, Russians and recently Americans found
different
reasons to call themselves Aryans.
Special thanks to CAIS (Circle of Ancient Iranians Studies) at the School of Oriental & African Studies in London for this article. There website is a very good
source with countless articles from all points of views. There website is linked here
CAIS-SOAS
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