In this thread, I will discuss about "Āryans" from the etymological point of view.

I will prove systematically that Hitler and his Nazis are not Aryans. Other assorted assholes may take note.

We will connect this word "Ārya" with something that we all recognize: Argent (money).

Before we start, here is a good representative picture of an Āryan: an Indian farmer.

The farming tradition here goes back to the ancient times of the Indus-Saraswati civilization, which was by far the largest farming culture in the world, dwarfing Mesopotamia & Egypt in size.

Along with farming, comes surplus and leisure. The Indus-Saraswati civilization created many luxury items and pastimes. It invented board games. It created many material artifacts that appear all along the Indian ocean: from the near-east to Africa.

The flourishing sea-trade spread the artifacts of India far and wide. But nothing was more prized by the rich people of the ancient times, than this deep blue stone: Rājavarta.

This Sanskrit word got corrupted in Persian as Lajaward & then transmitted to Latin as Lapis Lazuli.

This stone appears in Egypt and Mesopotamia. Rich people got buried with it. Emperor Tutankhamen's tomb has got it.

But there was only one mine for Lazurite stones in the ancient past: in Badakshan in today's Afghanistan. It was an outpost of the Indus-Saraswati civilization.