Baltic pagan religion institutionalizes

At the end of the pagan era in the Balticum, there were first attempts, to institutionalize the traditional pagan whorship into a more church like faith ( Because of the success and ruthelessness of Christian mission in that region). The pagan gods of the elder balts have been integrated into this belief sytem. Could a pod, were the Teutonic order fails at same point and the resistance of the Baltic peoples stronger help to maintain this process ? How would the christianizing slavic neighbors of the Balts look at that religion ?
 
Crusades would continue, and faith would remain a pretense for conquest and colonisation plans. The Baltic groups, on their own, were too small to withstand all their Christian neighbours (Swedes, Danes, various Germans, Slavic principalities, Poles). Without Christianising, they bereave themselves of options for alliances.
Turning the old religious traditions into a church-like scriptural religion means totally transforming them, creating something new. It would take great thinkers / prophets to do that, and their followers would have to have to some motivation to risk so much just for adhering to this isolated kind of religion. IF indeed such a prophet had turned up, the best he could hope for would be to gather a small group of devotees and hold out in some remote place for a few more decades, perhaps inspiring some specific popular traditions in the region even after it´s finally been Christianised. Though how they would look is something I couldn`t possibly tell, it wholly depends on what the prophet would make of the old Baltic traditions.
 
I know this is basically a repeat of what I said in "Odin's Challenge", but I think any successful institutionalisation or general survival of a religion is seriously dependant on it having a scriptural canon. Even if there are schisms that are drastically different (ala Hinduism), innumerable scriptures (ala Buddhism) etc, to compete against an ideological and contradictory opposite (monotheism in this instance) there just has to be some form of scripture from which hard philosophy can stem.

Now realistically, I think the northern crusades would be a tad too late for this. Every major religion today had at least several hundred years of philosophical underpinnings before they began that bolstered them and this is far too late for (as much as I am a paganophile) incredibly simplistic, divided and un-nuanced traditions to survive in reasonable numbers.

But if you want it to survive in small numbers, all you need is relative isolation. Look at the Sami people and you will find that the Christian world had problems converting these often-separated people's way into the 1840s and (to much debate) they have amongst them perhaps the only pagan tradition in Europe unbroken to this day.
 
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