Updated: “Aryan” Is the Correct and Proper Name of Our Race

by Martin Kerr

BEFORE 1940 OR SO, the term “Aryan” and the name “Aryan race” were part of the ordinary vocabulary of every moderately-educated person in the English-speaking world. Following the Second World War, “Aryan” fell into forced disuse and disrepute because of its association with National Socialist racial ideology. Winners write the history books, and “Aryan” was one word they wanted left out.

Instead, it was replaced by “White” in everyday use, and by “Indo-European” for use by historical and linguistic specialists. Most newspapers capitalized the “W,” but at some point in the 1970s, newspapers stopped capitalizing it, and it became just “white.”

Now we are told by our would-be masters that the White race itself does not exist – that it is merely a “social construct” designed to keep the colored races of the world suppressed.

Pretty neat trick, eh? First we are exterminated linguistically, then conceptually, and next – well, killing off the Aryan race can hardly be genocide, if it does not really exist in the first place – right?

An essential countermeasure to this genocidal design is for us to reclaim both our racial identity as Aryans – and the word “Aryan” itself.

The following is the truth about the term “Aryan,” which our racial enemies hate so much.

About 4,000 or 5,000 years ago there was a racially homogeneous collection of tribes who called themselves the “Aryans” or something similar. The name means the “Noble Ones,” and is related, for example, to the Greek words aristos (“the best”) and arete (“excellence in virtue”). In addition to being of one race or ethnicity, they all spoke the same language, and had common religion, legal system and social structure.

For reason of lamentable Political Correctness, in the post-1945 world scholars have chosen to speak of these people as the Indo-Europeans – but practically speaking, Indo-European and Aryan are interchangeable as racial designations.

There is much controversy about the precise location Indo-European homeland, but the consensus of informed opinion places it somewhere in Southeastern Europe (perhaps in the Danube basin) or Southwestern Asia (perhaps on the western steppes or maybe in Anatolia).

At some point in time there began a great outflowing from the Indo-European homeland. Some Aryan tribes moved east and south. The Indo-Aryans were that tribe or folk which crossed the Hindu Kush mountains and descended into the Indus valley, where they gave birth to the Classical Indian civilization. Others (such as the Mitanni) migrated to the area now known as Iran, where they created the ancient Persian civilization. Still others (such as the Tocharians), journeyed further eastward, towards the rising sun, venturing across the Takla Makan desert and into Western China.

All of these Eastern Aryans, over the course of time, intermarried with the more-numerous non-Aryan peoples whom they conquered. In consequence, they lost their distinctive racial identity, and became extinct.

But the Western Aryans, following the direction of the setting Sun, poured into Europe. The Hellenes conquered Greece; the Italic tribes conquered Italy. The Celts swept across northwestern Europe, as far as Ireland. In northern Europe, the Germanic peoples established their distinctive culture.

All of the nations and peoples of Europe, with the exception of the Basques in the west and the Finno-Ugric peoples in the northeast, are descended from the Western Aryans. (And the Basques and Finno-Ugrians are of related racial lineage, in any case.) Because the peoples they conquered were racially similar to them, intermixture between the Indo-European conquerors and the pre-Indo-European “Old Europeans” allowed the Western Aryans to maintain their distinctive racial identity to this day.

The names “Ireland,” “Iran,” and “Armenia” all mean “land of the Aryans,” and testify to the extent of Indo-European or Aryan settlement.(1) Among the ancient Hittites, possibly the oldest Aryan civilization, we find documents using the term “nata ara” to refer to non-Hittites. It means exactly what you think it means: “non-Aryan.”

In The Histories (circa 450 BC), Herodotus actually uses the word “Aryan” to describe the Medes, who were an ancient people related to the Greeks, and who lived directly to the east of them. He writes:

The Medes were called anciently by all peoples “Aryans,” but when Medea, the Colchian, came to them from Athens, they changed their name. Such is the account which they themselves give. (2)

The first opponent that Julius Caesar faced in Gaul was the German king Ariovistus, whose name is a cognate with “Aryan,” as is the Celtic given name Ariomanus. (3)

In India, the Aryan tribes kept the name “Aryan” as their specific ethnonym (also in Afghanistan), where it continues to be used today, long after the last drop of pure Aryan blood has vanished.

I surmise that the Eastern Aryans, being surrounded by multitudes of non-Whites in the lands that they conquered, and with whom the differed greatly, both in appearance and quality, tended to keep their identity as Aryans, whereas the Western Aryans more readily blended in with the racially similar European peoples they conquered, and so lost their identity as “Aryans” more completely.

Some scholars try to pretend that the term “Aryan” only has value when used linguistically or applied to the Aryans in India. But the historic and prehistoric record is clear: “Aryan” was a racial or folk designation long before it was appropriated as a narrow linguistic term. (4)

Today, racially conscious White people throughout the world have proudly reclaimed this ancient racial descriptor as the proper name of their Race – and that is how it should be!

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National Vanguard Editor’s Note

It should perhaps be mentioned that there are traces of Aryan blood all over the lands where Whites once lived and conquered; a substantial amount in Iran and the Americas, and traces in Afghanistan, India, and all over Western Asia and the Middle East. There, certain family lines tenuously preserve people of Aryan lineage and countenance. The author here perhaps should have said that the Eastern Aryans are practically extinct instead of absolutely so. Practically, since these nations do not value or attempt to increase or even preserve whatever Aryan heritage remains, and some actively disown or denigrate it, cleaving instead to raceless Semitic or other religion as the major component of their national identities. This is the situation of powerlessness and minority status into which, under Jewish domination and Christian superstition, the Western Aryans are now also sinking, and which the National Alliance aims to reverse.

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Notes

(1) “De Morgan has said there are signs which show that the Armenians, as their other Aryan relatives, were nature worshipers and that this faith in time was later changed to the worship of national gods, of which many were the equivalents of the gods in the Roman, Greek and Persian cultures. The main proto-Armenian (Aryan) god was Ar, the god of Sun, Fire and Revival. The Armenian hypothesis of Indo-European origins connects the name with the ‘Ar-‘ Armenian root meaning light, sun, fire found in Arev (Sun), Arpi (Light of heaven), Ararich (God or Creator), Ararat (place of Arar), Aryan, Arta etc.”

From “Armenia the land of Aryans – Western Armenia TV, retrieved January 22, 1923.

(2) The Histories by Herodotus, Book 7, Chapter 62, Section 1.

(3) Some further technical linguistic evidence:

“To begin with the alleged PIE ethnonym *aryo, Baissac (1867: 3, 6) and Ploix (1884: 731) accept its existence and derive from it the word meaning ‘white’ – *arg- ‘to shine, white’ in Wakins (1985: 3) which alludes, they think, to PIE speakers having fair skin. Going back as far as Picet (1858), others have either agreed that PIE speakers called themselves *aryo (Dumézil 1941b: 44-45; Lelekov 1982b: 149-50); Palmer 1974: 12, 17; Puhvel 1978: 337; 1989: 45; Winn 1995: 156: cf. Gamkrelidze and Ivanov 1995: 657-8; Mair 1995c: 296-7) or at least considered plausible (Watkins 1985: 3; Werner 1987: 495 n. 8). Its supposed reflexes appear in, for example, Vedic ārya- ‘noble’, the Hittite ara- ‘social equal, peer,” Greek áristos ‘best’, Old Irish aire ‘free, noble,’ the Celtic personal name Ariomanus and the Germanic name arjosteR…Sergent has recently declared in favor of PIE *aryo- on the basis of the Irish hero or god Eremon (1996: 443-4; cf. Haudry 1993: 188; Winn 1995: 156)…Baissac adds that Homer calls Greeks in general ‘Argives’ (1887: 6).”

From Indo-European Origins: The Anthropological Evidence by John Day, Institute for the Study of Man, Washington, DC, 2001, ISBN 0-941694-75-5, p. 37.

(4) There is no logical reason that “Aryan” cannot be used as both an ethnonym (or demonym) and a linguistic classification simultaneously. Consider, for example, English people and English language; French people and French language; German people and German language. Likewise, we can have both Aryans as a people or race, and Aryan as language family. It does not have to be one or the other. Personally, however, I prefer to use “Aryan” as a racial or ethnic descriptor, and “Indo-European” as a linguistic designation: there is less confusion that way.

Further Reading:

Adams, Douglas Q., and Day, John V., eds., The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. FitzRoy Dearborn Publishers, London, 1997, ISBN 978-1-884964-98-5.​

Day, John V., Indo-European Origins: The Anthropological Evidence. John V. Day, Institute for the Study of Man, Washington, DC, 2001.

Haudry, Jean, The Indo-Europeans. Scott-Townsend Publishers, Washington, DC (n.d., but around 2002).

Morris, Charles, The Aryan Race by Charles Morris. University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1982.

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Source: New Order