Christianised Culture, Not Religion
how could the folowing come about and how would it affect Europe?
Christianity spreads more or less as it did in OTL
maybe Dioclecian is a bit more eficient in his eforts and that slows them down a bit
then in 313 christianity becomes official
but the church is not as strong as OTL, and/or there are internal problems, or external political complications
anyway christianity does spread to most Roman territory, it is not as hegemonous but its there, Arians are perhaps a bit stronger than the Chatolicks and the Orthodox are not as numerous
one way or the other the standard OTL atempts to baptise non-christian populations ocur, but with less political backing
with time the traditional religions fight off most christian atempts of conversion and develop some kind of political/cultural imunity
simultaniously christian or rather Roman and Bizantine culture spreads to most of Europe mixing with Germanic, Skandinavian and Slavic, generating a sincretic mesh, not unlike Hellenism
just as midlle eastern and Hindu dieties were Hellenised and Greek and mediteran dieties became more "eastern", so too the traditional panteons of european peoples are "Christianised"
father gods are equalised with Yahve, thunder gods take after saint Ilia, risen gods develop a beard and curly hair, most festival and holidays are celebrated on the same dates all ower Europe
simultaniously christianity takes things from the other religions, Chatolic saints get Slavic and Keltic simbols, Jesus becomes closer to ciclical life-death-resurection diety, God becomes more of a thunderer, the holy trinity develops a life of its own
the cross the cornucopia the hammer of thor etc... become sinonimous simbols of faith, power, life, opulence, potency etc...
a number of alfabets become standard and used simultaniously in most of Europe, each prevalent in its original region
each of the main culturo-religious groups standardise a cannon scripture, all of wich converge on numerous points
the christian Satan is split, one half becoming first asimilated into the positive image of Veles and the Horned God, then disapears, the negative part becoming sinonimous with the miriad of nasty evil bad guy figures in european folklore, or a represemtation of Titanic characters such as the scandinavian giants enemies of the gods
wiches wizards and sorcerers acused of evil deeds are burned as they were burned long before christianity but sistems develop with time that atempt to get this under control
magical sistems develop and evolve into an etire subculture of theyr own, and become practically omnipresent in most populations, as they were in OTL pre-christian times
how could the folowing come about and how would it affect Europe?
Christianity spreads more or less as it did in OTL
maybe Dioclecian is a bit more eficient in his eforts and that slows them down a bit
then in 313 christianity becomes official
but the church is not as strong as OTL, and/or there are internal problems, or external political complications
anyway christianity does spread to most Roman territory, it is not as hegemonous but its there, Arians are perhaps a bit stronger than the Chatolicks and the Orthodox are not as numerous
one way or the other the standard OTL atempts to baptise non-christian populations ocur, but with less political backing
with time the traditional religions fight off most christian atempts of conversion and develop some kind of political/cultural imunity
simultaniously christian or rather Roman and Bizantine culture spreads to most of Europe mixing with Germanic, Skandinavian and Slavic, generating a sincretic mesh, not unlike Hellenism
just as midlle eastern and Hindu dieties were Hellenised and Greek and mediteran dieties became more "eastern", so too the traditional panteons of european peoples are "Christianised"
father gods are equalised with Yahve, thunder gods take after saint Ilia, risen gods develop a beard and curly hair, most festival and holidays are celebrated on the same dates all ower Europe
simultaniously christianity takes things from the other religions, Chatolic saints get Slavic and Keltic simbols, Jesus becomes closer to ciclical life-death-resurection diety, God becomes more of a thunderer, the holy trinity develops a life of its own
the cross the cornucopia the hammer of thor etc... become sinonimous simbols of faith, power, life, opulence, potency etc...
a number of alfabets become standard and used simultaniously in most of Europe, each prevalent in its original region
each of the main culturo-religious groups standardise a cannon scripture, all of wich converge on numerous points
the christian Satan is split, one half becoming first asimilated into the positive image of Veles and the Horned God, then disapears, the negative part becoming sinonimous with the miriad of nasty evil bad guy figures in european folklore, or a represemtation of Titanic characters such as the scandinavian giants enemies of the gods
wiches wizards and sorcerers acused of evil deeds are burned as they were burned long before christianity but sistems develop with time that atempt to get this under control
magical sistems develop and evolve into an etire subculture of theyr own, and become practically omnipresent in most populations, as they were in OTL pre-christian times
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