{"id":34513,"date":"2017-03-07T13:32:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T13:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=34513"},"modified":"2025-11-23T19:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:03:18","slug":"aryan-atlantis-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/aryan-atlantis-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aryan<\/strong> is a term used to denote “peoples speaking Indo-European (or specifically Indo-Iranian) languages, or ancient peoples thought to have spoken Proto-Indo-European, the\u00a0hypothetical\u00a0language from which Indo-European languages are believed to derive.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

An Aryan Atlantis was proposed by Ignatius Donnelly<\/a> in his famous 1882 book(a)<\/sup>, selectively employing biblical texts and a variety of mythologies to support his view. However, he did not use the term in the racist manner it came to be employed just four decades later.<\/p>\n

Donnelly also promoted the popular 19th-century idea that India was subjected to an invasion by Aryans from the northwest. This idea is still debated today with opponents of the idea, such as the American-born Vedic scholar, David Frawley, who sees the Aryans, not as invaders but indigenous Indians[0817<\/a>]<\/sup>. Graham Hancock<\/a> quotes Frawley extensively in support of his ancient civilisation views.<\/p>\n

The term \u2018Aryan\u2019 was also used to describe one of Blavatsky<\/a>\u2019s imaginary \u2018root races\u2019, however, some argue that it was used in a ‘spiritual’ sense, but this is debated.<\/p>\n

The World History Encyclopedia<\/em> offers an excellent overview of the origins of the Aryans(b)<\/sup>\u00a0as well as the etymology of the name itself. It explains how “i<\/em>t was first applied as a self-identifying term by a migratory group of people from Central Asia (Kazakhstan) later known as Indo-Iranians (who settled on the Iranian Plateau) and, later, applied to Indo-<\/em>Aryans<\/em>\u00a0(who traveled south to settle northern\u00a0<\/em>India<\/em>).” <\/em>It seems that this group integrated with the people of the Indus Valley<\/a>. When, in the 2nd millennium BC, the Indus Valley civilisation declined, supposedly due to climate change, its people moved south. This may also have been exacerbated by a decline in trade, due to internal strife in two of their principal trading partners, Mesopotamia and Egypt.<\/p>\n

Today, the term is primarily used to describe the family of languages known as Indo-European. Unfortunately, the word also has a dark side to its history, with its arrogation by the Nazis to describe their \u2018master race\u2019.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/atl\/ataw\/ataw510.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.worldhistory.org\/Aryan<\/a>
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Aryan is a term used to denote “peoples speaking Indo-European (or specifically Indo-Iranian) languages, or ancient peoples thought to have spoken Proto-Indo-European, the\u00a0hypothetical\u00a0language from which Indo-European languages are believed to derive.” An Aryan Atlantis was proposed by Ignatius Donnelly in his famous 1882 book(a), selectively employing biblical texts and a variety of mythologies to support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2003,5168,955,1811,108,257,1262,405],"class_list":["post-34513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aryans","tag-david-frawley","tag-graham-hancock","tag-helena-blavatsky","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-indus-valley","tag-kazakhstan","tag-nazis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65364,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34513\/revisions\/65364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}