>>19984640Ahura-Mazda, the god of Persian Zoroastrianism, was the Vedic god Varuna, also known as Asura Medhira, he was the supreme god of the Indo-Iranians of India with Mitra, being the dual god Varuna-Mitra, before the Aryan invasion (yes, there were Aryans and caste system in India before the Aryan Invasion, that's why his caste system looks like more like the Spanish caste system than Jim Crow/Apartheid). The New Aryans replaced Varuna for Indra.
The Kuru people, who despite being considered part of the Indo-Aryan peoples, were to blame for degenerating the Vedas back in 900~800 BC, including the creation and canonization of the Atharvaveda in what previously constituted only three textual/oral bodies; Rigveda, Yajurveda and Samaveda. The bizarre thing about Atharvaveda is that it is from it that many magical formulas that were considered as sorcery in those times, fire worship and other practices not very accepted by the Indo-Aryans of that region emerged or were compiled. This Kuru people/federation was very linked to the Semitic peoples of Mesopotamia and as their first relations with the pure Aryans were very troubled, the bastards literally acted like Jews and gradually mixed until they were accepted and blended completely, the dates also match the Creation of Zoroastrianism and how As you well know, in the Avestan the Vedic gods are considered demons, the same technique that the Jews used in the Bible when demonizing deities other than Yahweh.
This is likely the cause of the Indo-Iranian split. In the Battle of the Ten Kings in the Vedas, an Aryan tribe finds itself cornered by other Aryan tribes. There the Vedas tell us that those Aryans had turned into Dasyus by worshipping the Asura, then the lone Aryan tribe of Trutsu-Bharata conducts a ritual of Ashvamedha (horse sacrifice) dedicated to Indra, before heading into battle. One of the “betraying” Aryan tribes is Pahlava/Parsu aka the Persians, who arrived in battle.