Part IV—Aristotle on Greek Nations Brought to Civil Stripe by Immigration The Greek philosopher Aristotle lived from circa 384 to 322 BCE. At one point in his book entitled Politics, he discussed various causes of revolution and civil war. Generally, he said, The universal and chief cause of this revolutionary feeling [is] the desire of equality, when men think that they are equal to others who have more than themselves; or … the desire of … superiority, when conceiving themselves…..
Part III: The Sogdians—Death by Immigration and Emigration Sogdiana Sogdiana, for the most part, comprised the semi-arid and mountainous area of present Uzbekistan’s Samarkand and Bukhara provinces and Tajikistan’s Sughd province. The Sogdians were Irano-Aryans who had migrated from the Central Asian steppe, and their major cities (which they founded) were Samarkand and Bukhara (Dien n.d., 1; “Sogdiana,” 4). Sogdiana was the national homeland of this predominately Nordic people during the 2,000 or 1,600-year period from the eleventh or…..
PART II Fate of the Tocharians For many centuries, the mountainous trade routes called the “Silk Road” commercially linked Persia and the Greco-Roman world with China and India. This vital trade route was dominated by Indo-Europeans who were mostly Aryans. However, its last segment before entering China was held by the easternmost branch of Indo-Europeans, called “Tocharians.” The Tocharians seem to have moved away from their brethren on the south Russian steppes sometime before 3500 BCE, and they migrated…..
Ashavid means “Knowledge of Asha.” It is the name of the revived original monotheistic religion of Spitama Zarathustra, an Irano-Aryan who lived sometime between 1700 and 1200 BCE in what is now Russia and western Kazakhstan. Including table of contents, glossary, references, and index, the book has about 500 pages and is divided into 19 chapters called “books.” The following are the books. Creation—a four-page prosaic overview of creation and the evolution of man. Spheres and Races. This is a…..
Welcome. My name is Eric Dryden, author of Ashavid. I’m happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about the Ashavid worldview. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here. I’ll be using this blog to interact with you about Ashavid, expanding on some of the topics in it and blogging on some of the ideas related to this book. I’m looking forward to getting to know you. …..