Who were Aryans?

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Re: Who were Aryans?

@Southie

It ha been said the Dravidians who occupied modern day Pam and north India were driven south by Aryans. Otherctheory iscfolks from central Asia aassimilated and formed the “Aryan” civilization. The vanaras described in Ramayana may be the natives.

They say the Vedas and Upanishads were written by Aryans. But sharabee the kaurand babloos probably know the answer (and queerst and Kaka when they show up)

Yes Southie Uncle one of the theories suggests that Vedas were written or reshaped by Aryans.

French historian Danielou, for instance, maintains that the original Vedas « were an oral Dravidian tradition, which was reshaped by the Aryans and later put down in Sanskrit ».

According to Danielou, the Mahabarata is the story of how the low caste Dravidians = the Pandavas, revolted against the high caste Aryans =the
Kauravas, who had enslaved them during their conquest - and won, **helped by the dark-skinned Krishna, a Dravidian of course. **Danielou finds lineage between the Vedic religion and the Persian religion (Zarathustra), as well as the Greek Gods; the problem is that he seems to imply that the Vedic religion may have sprung from the Zoroastrian creed! He also puts down all Vedic symbols as purely physical signs: for instance Agni is the fire that should always burn in the house’s altar. Finally, he sees in the Rig-Veda “only a remarkable document on the mode of life, society and history of the Aryans”.

(Histoire de l’Inde, page 62)