Iranian GEDmatch kits

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Originally Posted by MS85

You can't because you have nothing in common with the REAL Aryans of the Median Empire, Mitanni Kingdom, the Aryan MAGI, Aryan Mithraism, Aryan Maryannu, Aryan Umman-manda in northern Mesopotamia etc., etc.

It is not your history, period!


Better stick to your Turkic history..

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Let be serious there are no Aryans today. And i am not talking about genetics here. Modern day Indo-Iranians are either Muslims, Hindu and in rare cases Orthodox (Ossetians). Yazidism as a syncretic religion has also only few similarities with the religion of ancient Aryans. Hinduism is even more distant from ancient Aryans but probably some cults (Brahmanism) preserved at least some rituals of Aryans. Modern day Indo-Iranians are the descendants of Aryans but they already have many other influences and their identities developed much later.

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Originally Posted by ComplicatedMystery

Yes, it's so. But nowadays some children of non-Muslim woman & Muslim man couples are non-Muslim. Though those Muslim men are not that religious, it's quite normal...

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Well, I think in Turkey in particular they are still raised as Turks first and foremost. With Turkish language and culture and self-identification.

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Originally Posted by Arhat

Let be serious there are no Aryans today. And i am not talking about genetics here. Modern day Indo-Iranians are either Muslims, Hindu and in rare cases Orthodox (Ossetians). Yazidism as a syncretic religion has also only few similarities with the religion of ancient Aryans. Hinduism is even more distant from ancient Aryans but probably some cults (Brahmanism) preserved at least some rituals of Aryans. Modern day Indo-Iranians are the descendants of Aryans but they already have many other influences and their identities developed much later.

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Yazidism is nothing actually as its books were composed by non-Yazidis in medieval or modern times. So much for the ancient Aryan tradition. Modern Yazidism is like the Druze religion - yonger than Islam.
Other than that, I agree this Aryanism shouldn't be a thing at all as it's neither an ethnicity, nor a culture. What do Nepali Buddhists, Ossetians and Persians have in common?

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Originally Posted by Leto

Well, I think in Turkey in particular they are still raised as Turks first and foremost. With Turkish language and culture and self-identification.

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Same in iran. I Know not a single iranian that is hardcore religious. In my family nobody is even religous.

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Originally Posted by Arhat

Let be serious there are no Aryans today. And i am not talking about genetics here. Modern day Indo-Iranians are either Muslims, Hindu and in rare cases Orthodox (Ossetians). Yazidism as a syncretic religion has also only few similarities with the religion of ancient Aryans. Hinduism is even more distant from ancient Aryans but probably some cults (Brahmanism) preserved at least some rituals of Aryans. Modern day Indo-Iranians are the descendants of Aryans but they already have many other influences and their identities developed much later.

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Forgot Zoroastrianism

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Originally Posted by Leto

Well, I think in Turkey in particular they are still raised as Turks first and foremost. With Turkish language and culture and self-identification.

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Same. I know a 1/2 Turkish (father) & 1/4 Uzbek 1/4 Russian (mother) girl who was born and raised in Uzbekistan (she studied the high school in Turkey, currently studying university in South Korea) and she considers herself Turkish and speaks Turkish better than she speaks Russian.

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Originally Posted by ComplicatedMystery

Same. I know a 1/2 Turkish (father) & 1/4 Uzbek 1/4 Russian (mother) girl who was born and raised in Uzbekistan (she studied the high school in Turkey, currently studying university in South Korea) and she considers herself Turkish and speaks Turkish better than she speaks Russian.

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Are you talking about Asya Aktaş?

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Originally Posted by itilvolga

Are you talking about Asya Aktaş?

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Yes!

I love and follow her so much :o She's my idol :amour101: :amour101:

Where do you know her?

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Originally Posted by Leto

Yazidism is nothing actually as its books were composed by non-Yazidis in medieval or modern times. So much for the ancient Aryan tradition. Modern Yazidism is like the Druze religion - yonger than Islam.
Other than that, I agree this Aryanism shouldn't be a thing at all as it's neither an ethnicity, nor a culture. What do Nepali Buddhists, Ossetians and Persians have in common?

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Well, it was originally strictly used to describe modern day Iran actually.


"Scholars point out that, even in ancient times, the idea of being an "Aryan" was religious, cultural and linguistic, not racial.[9][10][11]"

"The Iranian people used the term as an ethnic label for themselves in the Avesta scriptures, and the word forms the etymological source of the country name Iran.[4][5][6][7]"

Philologist J.P. Mallory argues that "As an ethnic designation, the word [Aryan] is most properly limited to the Indo-Iranians, and most justly to the latter where it still gives its name to the country Iran.[4]

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Originally Posted by ComplicatedMystery

Yes!

I love and follow her so much :o She's my idol :amour101: :amour101:

Where do you know her?

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I just saw her introduction video on Youtube randomly and took a look at it, she looks exactly like what she is lol