Re: Meaning of Aryan: now, "white people"?

There were also the "White Huns" as opposed to the
"Red Huns" --no clue what the difference was.

OTOH IMHO a Black Russian tastes infinitely better
than a White Russian or a Red Russian


--- george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> > <BMScott@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > At 7:29:39 PM on Thursday, February 14, 2008,
> > Patrick Ryan
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > > No, it is part of the barrage of abuse that is
> > leveled
> > > > against the Nordic ethnos, led by Hollywood,
> but
> > abetted
> > > > by other Germanophobes.
> > >
> > > A sadly revealing comment, but not really
> > pertinent to
> > > <arya>.
> >
> >
> > For my part, I won't discuss any more with him any
> > "arya"-related
> > topic (nor, probably, any other sort of topic),
> > especially after he
> > showed he is unable to point to any lexical
> material
> > whatsoever
> > allowing for the reconstruction of a root **HHar-
> > (or whatever its
> > form be devised), without even clarifying which
> > language family or
> > macrofamily the same would have belonged in (he
> > cited some Sumerian
> > root, for example... which has no relation to
> PIE!).
> > Not to speak of
> > the meaning 'white/pale' (referred to people's
> > complexion) he
> > attributes to his fancied and cherished root!.
> >
> > This is revealing of a mindset, of an ideology, as
> > was seen in all
> > his subsequent posts in this thread.
> >
> > It's also funny to figure out those Neolithic
> folks
> > so proud of
> > their "white skin", and so contemptous of their
> > "dark-skinned"
> > neighbours, that they chose a term meaning 'the
> > White Ones' as their
> > own self-designation!
>
> ****GK: One group (post-neolithic) designated as
> "the
> white ones" were the Aorsi. But here colour was a
> geographic rather than physiological indicator.Like
> the "White" Croatians or "White" Ugrians of later
> centuries.****
>
>
>
>
>

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