Aryans without caste -2

....To begin with there was no Sanatan dharma or any of the Vedas or any such cosmic order which could be called dharma. The Aryan people lived in a nomadic community worshipping the gods related to natural powers like Indra (rain god,) Vayu (air god), and Varuna (water god) etc. Inter tribal conflicts among them were common as well as the conflicts with the natives of India. Without agriculture these tribes depended on meat of their cattle stock and plundering others’ cattle stock. Later these experts in beef eating gave up beef eating and degraded it to prohibited level. They forgot their roots – amazing, is it not!!!

They descended in the region of Sapta-Sandhav (land of seven rivers) populated by village based communities and most probably agriculture-based small kingdoms of native people. These natives of India were later to be characterized as Shudras – the lowest in order in Varna system.

The Aryans moved out of their homeland of southern Russian steppes around 1500 BC. These steppes are generally identified with the Aryan homeland because it tallies with the description of large green land of Aryans. There are signs of outward movement of people from this region around 1500 BC. Some of them moved in the direction of Southeast. They came to present day Afghanistan and settled along the banks of river Saraswati (Harhawati). These tribes were separated after a violent quarrel which is indicated in the demonizing one’s deities by the other. One of the Aryan groups that came to India came to be known as Indo-Aryans. The other group that went to Iran came to be known as Indo-Iranians. The group which came to India claimed Devas as their deities and Asuras as demons. The group which went to Iran claimed Asuras as their deities and Devas as demons. These two groups went on to develop separate life styles. They lost touch with each other. However, there are four additional links between them. First the language they used was almost the same – old Rig Vedic Sanskrit; second the thread ceremony, which is performed when a boy comes of age, was common to them; third the fire worship was also common to them; and fourth was the intoxicating drink of Soma/homa....