Surviving Dilmun

Yun-shuno

Banned
Dilmun an island not far from eastern Arabia and south of Iraq referred to Sumerian texts-believed by some historians to be the origins of the Sumerian people and culture.

What would it take for a surviving culture to exist on that isle?
 
I afraid that it is pretty impossible. It was on important trade route. So someone would conquer that and local language would be extinct quickly.
 
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.
 

Yun-shuno

Banned
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?
 
Can you send me a link?
Here's the link, and here's the post itself:
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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.
 
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.

Wasn't the Sumerian homeland, at least linguistically, mostly the region that got submerged when the sea levels rose following the end of the last glacial period (and is credited by some scholars as inspiring Deluge myths worldwide?). Dilmun can be a holy site, Sumerian can be a liturgical language, but the Sumerians as a culture seem to be dead by the change in sea levels. That doesn't sound too different than OTL.
 
Are there any maps you could point me to? The Wikipedia article doesn't tell me much except 'it is in the Persian Gulf, roughly where Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar are'. And it sounds mighty interesting, especially the deluge connection.
 
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