Who Were Aryans? Where They Come From?

Who were Aryans, anyway? Tribes that moved in to Europe starting from 2300 - 1600 OA from various locations in Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, Mediterranean, and elsewhere, who were having nothing in common except an adventurous desire to find a better and safer place to live. Ancient migrants, emigrants and immigrants, looking for greener pastures to support their cattle, or find new opportunities for fishing, hunting and honey gathering. Europe was not a vacant place by that time already, there were people living everywhere - ancestors of today's Uralic, Illirians, Etrurian, Basques.

Just like the European Jews moved into Palestine in 1900s, and found out that the land was not empty and deserted, so the settlers had and still have to work hard subjugating, dispossessing, pushing out the local Arab population, those ancient colonizers of Europe had to deal with the same and similar problems. Luckily for both - autochtones and intruders, there were plenty of land in Europe to settle on.

So they settled down, mixed with locals, and multiplied. Multiplied and spread around. One of the most powerful tribes (Aryans) was more successful in colonizing and assimilating others - both locals, and newcomers. So, different tribes had to learn, understand, and eventually switch to their masters' language, abandoning their own culture and roots. Some other tribes kept to their own traditions and language (Eskuara), others (Illirians, Dacians, Etrurians, dozens of others) gave up and lost their identity, or simply died out. Still, the question remains: where was the original Homeland of those powerful Aryans? In Armenia, in Russia, in Poland, in Persia? Who knows? To answer this question it would be necessary to reconstruct the original Aryan language, and then from scratch build the landscape of that ultimate Aryan Urheimat.

A few common Aryan words easily come to my mind: arbeiten, aspen, birch, brother, cold, daughter, day, door, du, field, fire - parja, fire - perkunas, flame, float, goose, house, ich, man (mensch/muzh), mead, meer, milk, month, moon, night, path, sister, sleep, snow, son, stay, Sun, tree, tun, water, wind ... these words create a picture of a family living in Baltic forests close to the seashore.

It is cold and snowy, they sit around the fire, honking geese flying over their heads high in the sky. Birch and aspen trees protect these people from the bad weather, their humble hut (house, haus, casa, khizha, khizhina ... ) is built from birch and aspen wood. Cold wind tries to extinguish their tribal fire. So they work hard to protect it, and they pray to Perkunas - their powerful God of Fire...