The site deals with the cultural connections that
may exist between the nordic countries with the countries in South-Asia
and South-East Asia, where Aryan tribes once migrated in the past.
It is generally believed that the Aryan tribes, once living in
the north of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea - i.e. so-called
Pontic Steppe in Southern Russia and Ukraine, may have migrated
to the East as hunters along the Central Asian Steppe and enterd
India and North-west China, already in the second millenium BC.
Some of these Aryan tribes are later known as Sakas or Messegates
in India, and Yueh-Chihs in China.
When Yueh-Chihs were driven away by the forerunners
of the Huns i.e. Hsuing-Nu people, around second century BC, from
the North-west China, it caused displacement of the Aryan tribes
towards the West. During this period of instabilities the Romans
managed to conquer the Scythians living in the Black Sea area.
After the Romans, the Goths defeated them; after the Goths, the
Huns ousted the Scythians from their homeland. These displacements
caused migrations of the Aes and Vane people from the areas around
Caucasus, towards the Northern Europe in several waves. They became
known as Svea in Sweden, Daner in Denmark and Herules in Norway.
These Herules (Aes people) are the forefathers of the Vikings
of Norway.
Even today one may be able to trace the connections
among these Aryan tribes, who went to Asia as well as to Northern-Europe,
by studying the similarities of the art and architecture and the
myths of the people still existing in different countries.
The website presents some documentary evidence
of these connections through photographs and video clips.
