"Have you understood me? Dionysos vs. Christ!". [nietzsche,EH,'Destiny',8]

Our Aryan religion is first recorded in the Vedas;
"The historical phase of Vedism or Vedic religion is usually taken to extend from about 1,500 B.C. until about 500 B.C.It was ushered in by the arrival of semi-nomadic Aryan tribes,who,by conquest and by settlement and assimilation,spread during these centuries across North India.The Aryans were that branch of the Indo-European peoples who moved down into Iran and Afghanistan and then into India.
What is known of their religion when they were in India derives mainly from the Veda,a remarkable corpus of religious literature which displays a considerable evolution of religious attitudes throughout the period". 'The Handbook of Living Religions',ed.Hinnells,Penguin]

The extent of Aryan religious writing is prodigious;
"The principal literary doents of Aryan religion are;The Veda;The Avesta [sacred book of the followers of Zarathustra];the Homeric poems;and the religious and mythological traditions preserved to us in the later literatures of Rome and Germany". [Muller,'Anthropological Religion']

The caste system which evolved out of the Aryan Vedic culture was laid down in 'The Lawbook of Manu';
"He should take pleasure only in the truth,religion,occupations proper for an Aryan,and purification". [Laws of Manu,4:175]

Nietzsche had high esteem for this doent;
"The Laws of Manu--this absolutely Aryan achievement,a priestly codex based on the Vedas,the system of Castes". [Nietzsche,letter to Gast,May 31,1888]

Nietzsche had no illusions about the meaning of Caste;
"Let us turn to the case of the BREEDING of a particular Race and Type.The most magnificent example of this is provided by the 'Laws of Manu';This law sets the task of breeding no fewer than four races at once:a priestly race,a fighting race,a race of merchants and farmers,and finally a race of servants,the Sudras". [Nietzsche,Twilight,'Improvers',3]