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The Caspians or Caspis were ancient people dwelling along the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea. The Caspians have generally been regarded as a pre-Indo-European people and have even been identified by some scholars with the Kassites, who spoke a language without a genetic relationship to any other known tongue. However onomastic evidence bearing on this point has been newly discovered. The Aramaic papyri from Egypt, in which several Caspian names are mentioned, are in part, etymologically Iranian. The Caspians must therefore be considered either an Iranian people or strongly under Iranian cultural influence.
In Persian mythology, the Caspian area is the realm of the Devas, intelligent but evil creatures who are killed by Persian heroes such as Rostam. The Shahnama or Persian book of kings states that these Devas from the Caspian area were the ones who taught the early Persians the arts of agriculture, mathematics, writing and astronomy. It would on the face of it appear that they were older, darker skinned Dravidian people who were conquered by the warlike nomadic Indo-Iranians in much the same way that their close relatives in India and Elam did. Iranian artists show the Devas as hairy with sharp teeth and horns, but wearing colourful, beautifully designed kilts.

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