Re: Who were the Aryans?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Honest Aryan) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jordan179) wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure about the hair color of Hera or Demeter. I am pretty sure
> > that Aphrodite was golden-haired, which is interesting because she's
> > an imported deity -- she's really a variant on Innana / Ishtar /
> > Astarte -- and fair hair is neither common amongst Semites nor
> > Sumerians (in fact, the Sumerians called themselves the "black-headed
> > people."
> 
>     Which brings us to Sargon:
> 
>         http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2300sargon1.html
> 
> "  [...]
> 
>      14. The black-headed peoples I ruled, I governed"

Indeed. Though Sharr-u-kin himself was almost certainly swarthy and
dark-haired, being a Semite. The only fair-haired folk the ancient
Akkadians would have been familiar with would have been (probably
Indo-European speaking) barbarians from what was (to them) the far
North, across many forests and mountain ranges.

The major irruptions of Indo-Europeans into Asia Minor, Mesopotamia,
and India were still several centuries in the future when Sharr-u-kin
said that.

Awesome, the scope of time, isn't it?

Sincerely Yours,
Jordan

Sincerely Yours,
Jordan