[Spike Knotts]

Yeah, when 5,000 “Aryans” rode into India, killed the men and took the women as wives...I’m sure the swastika banner they brought with them was considered extremely benign.

You admit you don’t know the origin of a symbol (until recently), but you’re giving lessons on what that very symbol meant to ancient peoples, friend and foe? Ok, Professor.

[TheThinker]

Yeah, when 5,000 “Aryans” rode into India, killed the men and took the women as wives...I’m sure the swastika banner they brought with them was considered extremely benign.

I didn't know this either. But do are you really comparing some ancient battle to the horror of the Holocaust? Perhaps someone needs a lesson on perspective.

[Cronos]

Actually there is no evidence for any Aryan Invasion. The Indus valley civilisation (of Caucasian Dravidians), died out probably due to environmental reasons at the same time the Minoan civilisation and the Hittite civilisations collapsed. There are no mass burial sites and the cities are not destroyed, just abandoned. The Swastika has always been a symbol of continuity just like the Chakra -- the Nazis only made it into a war symbol.

A closer reading of the Vedas sees that the war against the Dasyus seem more to be a war between Indics (who raised Devas over Asuras in their pantheon) and Iranics (who raised Ahuras like Ahura Mazda over Daevas in THEIR pantheon). The Ramayana could be interpreted as an ARyanic-Dravidian war in Ceylon, but the Tamils were never in Ceylon until British times, they concentrating more on their Empires in Indonesia (the Srivijaya Empire etc).