It is curious to note that Ahashverosh was the king of Persia, which in 1935 changed its name to Iran (meaning Land of the Aryans) in order to affiliate with Hitler’s master race (identified as Aryan, for real or imagined reasons). Iran (the Land of these self-indentified Aryans) has publicly stated its genocidal intention to wipe Israel off the map.
Historically, it appears that the Aryans were the original Brahmin caste in India that introduced the earliest scriptural writings, called the Vedas which Jewish tradition connects to the verse in Genesis 25:6. After Sarah died Abraham remarried Ketura (which commentaries identify with Hagar, the mother of Ishmael) and had six additional sons "to whom he gave gifts, and sent them…eastward, to the east country." Commentators note the similarity between A-braham and Brahman (as well as other commonalties) and speculate that the gifts Abraham sent with his sons were the mystical teachings that seeded early Brahmanism. Apparently the elite Brahman status was originally connected to the spiritual wisdom they possessed.
It is also interesting to note that the word Aryan, in Hebrew, actually means lion-like, and that one and a half thousand years before Esther honored Ahashverosh with the title of lion, Jacob (Abraham’s grandson) blesses his son Yehuda / Judah (the one whose name represents the entire Jewish people, who are called Yehudim, i.e., Jews) with the following words: "Young lion (aryeh), Judah, you have risen from prey, my son. He crouches like a lion, like an awesome lion, who will dare rouse him?" In fact, an emblem among Jews almost as common as the Jewish Star is the Lion of Judah. It is a strange irony that these Aryans, who seem, at least recently, to have such compelling hatred for the Jewish race, might actually trace their leonine (synonym for Aryan) roots to Abraham, the first Jew.
[From an e-mailing from "A Still Small Voice <[email protected]>]
In the Aryan world view; whether it's Avestan Persian, Indian, Greek, Slavic, Norse or even Germanic; there are competition and rivalry, even military rivalry, but there is no place for hatred, racial or otherwise. Anti-semitism is the problem of Islam and Christianity due to certain dogmatic presumptions in these religions, maybe due to struggling to come out of shadows of their parent theology, that has given rise to hatred which for centuries stacked up and led to the barbaric genocide never before witnessed in the known history of humankind. It is though unfortunate that the perpetrators of this were those Aryan stock who have centuries before lost their own spiritual and theological standing and adopted a religion marred with hatred to Jews as has been described before. So, it cannot be said that where ever there will be an Aryan, he/she will be an antisemite. But it is probable that the Aryan, who has got converted to the above-mentioned offshoot religions, maybe antisemite.