What kind of religion do you see emerging from that cradle?Have a new evangelical religion akin to Christianity or Islam emerge from the island making it a holy place. Importantly the religion encourages some aspects of traditional island culture.
Basically the culture only survives on the island if the mainland maintains the same culture as well.
What kind of religion do you see emerging from that cradle?
Well, it was definitely seen as a holy place. The island is covered with burial mounds (there's even a few in my village!), but if I'm not mistaken, some archeologists have argued that many of the people in the burial mounds were from Sumer rather than Dilmun itself.That far back it could be anything I suppose but since Dilmun was already seen as a kind of Mount Olympus for Sumerian gods possibly something like the Egyptian's brief dalliance with monotheism?
Well, it was definitely seen as a holy place. The island is covered with burial mounds (there's even a few in my village!), but if I'm not mistaken, some archeologists have argued that many of the people in the burial mounds were from Sumer rather than Dilmun itself.
As far as I know, it would be very difficult to have Sumerian culture survive on the island. Throughout history Bahrain has been quite vulnerable to the movement of peoples from the Arabian Peninsula.