2.There's no real evidence that these Aryans ever existed, but that didn't stop romantic thinkers like Johann Gottfried Herder who believed that their myths, along with other things, embodied the simplicity and purity of the German 'volk.'
3.The discovery of Proto-Indo-Europian led some to posit that it was spoken by a group called " Aryans, " whose myths were the basis for all European, Indian, and Southwest-Asian myths — a purported explanation for their similarities.