History
Origins[]
After the Post-Hyborian Cataclysm, the territory around the slowly dying Inland Sea was inhabited with Cimmerians, where retreating Nordics joined them, living more or less at peace together, while the two races eventually intermingled.
Due to a growing population, the tribes, now known as the Aryans living in the steppes west of the Inland Sea (now know as the Caspian) moved into the lands now known as India, Asia Minor, and much of Europe, pushing westwards the remnants of the Picts who by then were returned to Stone Age savages.[1]
Legacy[]
Some variations of the primitive sons of Aryas persisted into the Modern Age, though other vanished ages ago.[1]
The Nazis later came to portray themselves as "Aryan supermen",[5] as would later followers of their doctrine, such as the American Nazi mercenary Axis.[6] The Master Men considered that "[their] power as Aryans [came] from God".[7]
Nazis also identified Thor as an Aryan, unknowing of his Asgardian origin.[8]
Alternate realities[]
Earth-12591[]
The Nazis considered the Norse Gods to be the forebears of the Aryans.[2]Notes
- Aryan was originally a term used as ethnic and religious labels.
- Drawing on misinterpreted references in the 19th century, the term "Aryan" was adopted as a racial category by French writer Arthur de Gobineau, whose ideology of the "Aryan" race was based on an idea of blond northern European who had migrated across the world and founded all major civilizations, before being diluted through racial mixing with local populations. This later influenced the Nazi racial ideology which saw the "Aryan race" as innately superior to other putative racial groups.[9]
- In his pseudo-historical essay "The Hyborian Age", Robert E. Howard seemingly used the latter misinterpretation.
See Also
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Savage Sword of Conan #17 ; The Hyborian Age: The Darkness... and the Dawn
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marvel Zombies Destroy! #2
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #176 ; The Three Deaths of Conan
- ↑ X-Necrosha #1
- ↑ Monsters Unleashed #3 ; The Death-Dealing Mannikin
- ↑ Marvel: The Lost Generation #6
- ↑ Thunderbolts (Vol. 5) #1
- ↑ Marvel: The Lost Generation #5
- ↑ Aryans at Wikipedia