AH Chalenge; Alternate Platonic/Jeudo/Gnostic Messianic State Religion(s)

The challenge is this;
Make up plausible alternatives to mainstream christianity using known cultural and religious elements common to the mediterranean and middle eastern cultural circles from around 100BC up to 300AD

In other words take gnosticism, judaism, zoroastrianism, egyptian mith and religion, myriad son-of-god and messiah sects, platonism, pitagoreism, mystery cults, etc... and mix them up in a plausible way so you dont get christianity, but, for instance, something that resembles hinduism, or something like catholic religion with more than one messiah (lets say this particular religion accepts reincarnation, then the prophetic and messianic figures can reappear over and over again)

bonus if you work in a huge subpanteon of saints and depaganised or surogate deities, that does not exclude daemons, but into which the emperors can be included
 
well, I've always had an alternate christianlike religion called the Simonites in my head (gods know why).

Mainly a Hellenised Jew living in Greece returns to Judaea claiming to be of the line of David gathers a group of followers and ends up crucified by the Romans. He gets called Simon Theides and leads to Roman Church headed by the ArchChrist under the Roman Emperor.

The main difference from OTL Christianity would be the text of the gospels (obviously!) and that he is held to have become divine not born of divine, all following apostolic bishops are known as Christs because they have been annointed and raised into divine communion with God.
 
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