A man's ability to distinguish between the cosmic truth and falsehood can be sharpened, but never wholly taught. For the one who possesses this, he still faces the danger of seduction by material circumstance- the thought that one's bearing should change along with the cycle of..
Lif and Lifthrasir then shall hide themselves in hoard-Mímir's holt,
The morning dew for meat shall they have,
from them shall ages be born
Líf ok Lifþrasir, en þau leynask munu
í holti Hoddmímis;
morgindöggvar þau sér at mat hafa,
en þaðan af aldir alask.
degeneration of the ages. Those who remain nourished by the water of Mímir's well—that is: the ancient, eternal and unchanging wisdom— those few will make a gift of their spirit to the successive ages.
Moellendorff on the Greeks relation to the gods (the kressoines):
”They were harmful and beneficial to him, inaccesible to his dominion. Sunburn and winter frost, storm and flood, gentle rain and hailstorm passes over him, his cattle, his fields. Above, clouds and tempests raced
We see that the peasantry who worked the land, or other sorts of laborers, were not considered Arya, and neither were those who exploited their labor for easy living. Only the free pastoralist was considered noble.
To what land shall I turn? Where with my ritual go, deserted by Aryan kin? Not with the cruel tyrants, nor with the peasantry am I contented.
How then to propitiate thee, O Ahura Mazda?
Yasna XLVI
Go forth, go forth upon the ancient pathways whereon our sires of old have gone before us.
There shalt thou look on both the Kings enjoying their sacred food, God Varuṇa and Yama.
Rig Veda 10.14.7
Further support for the claim that Pindar could be called the "most Indo-European" of classical poets: in Olympian 2 there is reintroduced an Aryan conception of the afterlife, with its post-mortem judgement, contra the Homeric vision of Hades.
O friends, for all our grieving, not yet shall we go down into the house of Hades, not before the day of our fate comes upon us.
ὦ φίλοι, οὐ γάρ πω καταδυσόμεθ’ ἀχνύμενοί περ εἰς Ἀίδαο δόμους, πρὶν μόρσιμον ἧμαρ ἐπέλθῃ
κ.174
As a fair matron comes forth Eos unfolding splendor,
stirring the settlements, rousing the footed creatures and setting the birds to the wing.
ā ghā yoṣeva sūnary uṣā yāti prabhuñjatī
jarayantī vṛjanam padvad īyata ut pātayati pakṣiṇaḥ
Rigveda I.XLVIII.V
Whoever is a thief, a robber, a murderer, a killer of righteous persons, whoever is addicted to sorcery, a burier of corpses, whoever is wicked, greedy, impious... may their evil desires lead them to destruction.
Ardvi Sura Nyāyesh (8)
Stele Funeraria di Democlide IV sec. a.C dal Pireo. Democlide seduto sulla prua di un trireme guarda tristemente il mare dove probabilmente perse la vita.
Emozionante
Neither the National Socialists, nor the hysterics for whom they continue to be a bogey, have any legitimate claim to set the bounds on thought and speech regarding Aryan culture and religion.
You can say 'Indo-European', it doesn't matter.
The fundamental idea of Aryan religion and culture (though by no means exclusive to Aryans) is the opposition between Chaos and Cosmos; this was originally reinforced by strictly upholding the continuity of the rituals, as evidenced by the oldest...
proportion.
By contrast, Iranian culture placed the utmost importance on veracity. Cosmos and Chaos are most represented in the dichotomy of truth and falsehood. The foremost mark of divine blessing is not beauty, but able sight which sees through deception.
All branches of the original culture share a basic ethical idea: the purpose of human life is to assist the gods in upholding the Cosmos against the primordial Chaos, which is always and for all time attempting to collapse the fragile order and dissolve all form back into itself.