The Gospel According to Hiawatha (Jesus is born to the Iroquois)
Disclaimer: I am neither Iroquois nor native American, and as such I am probably making many mistakes, so if there are any Iroquois out there, I apologize for any mistakes and would appreciate any and all help.
Question: If Christianity and Judaism formed in America instead of in Europe, how would history change?
From "
The Creation," the Book of Hiawatha
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...In the beginning there was no earth, only water. Above the oceans lived Taryenyawagon (The Holder of the Heavens), the Great Spirit, with his tribe in the Sky World. The Sky World was lit by a single world-tree. In the tribe lived a woman named Atahensic. Atahensic was one of the daughters of the Great Spirit, and she dreamed. She dreamed nightmares, dreams of fear that she could not dispel. One night, she dreamed of the tree of light and came upon an idea. The next day, she asked the men of the tribe to pull up the tree and allow more light, to eternally dispel the nightime. Yet, as they dug a hole around the tree, the tree fell through the hole and disappeared, taking its light with it into the darkness. As the Great Spirit asked for the perpetrator, the men were afraid, and they pushed Atahensic through the hole, blaming her.
Atahensic was rescued by a fish hawk for a time who held her up with his feathery back. However, he wasn't capable of holding up Atahensic, and so he asked the helldiver to create ground for hte woman to rest on. The helldiver brought mud and smeared it over a turtle, forming a small earth. Ducks and beavers assisted the helldiver, and slowly the animals constructed the continents and the earth, all supported by the turtle. On this earth, plants grew and animals flourished--but Atahensic was utterly, inescapably alone. One day, one of the Great Spirit's Jogah (Nature Spirits) came down from the Sky World, sent by Taryenyaw, the Great Spirit to find his daughter. On finding this new world, Iosheka reported to the Great Spirit. As he travelled over the earth, he found it beautiful. Realizing Atahensic's loneliness, he created people to populate this world and keep Atahensic company. He gave Iosheka to Atahensic as a guardian. The two lay together, and Atahensic became pregnant. She gave birth to two children--Hahgwediyu and Hahgwehdaetgah--and then died. From her body, a plant grew--the first maize, and the last gift of the Great Spirit. Watched over by the spirit of what would become the Haudenosaunee, the Ongwehonweh (the first people), the descendants of Atahensic, began to form. As blood kin of the Great Spirit, the ages of the Ongwehonweh far exceed those of those created for their sake. Yet, as they began to breed with the lesser men, their bloodline began to recede."
China in the Pre-Ongwehonweh Age
In 1221 BD (Before Dekanawida/221 BCE), Emperor Shi Huangdi (秦始皇)'s forces complete the conquest of Qi (齊),the last of the Six Warring States to fall to Qin (秦), the first Unified and Centralized Dynasty of China. Indulging in dreams of immortality, Shi Huangdi granted a request of a Court Sorceror, Xu Fu (徐福) to retrieve the Elixir of Immortality. Embarking with 60 ships and 8,000 crew, boys and girls, and craftsmen, Xu Fu's first voyage reached the isles of Japan, utterly wrecking the native Jomon (縄文)culture. But Xu Fu's dream was not simply the kingdom of Wo (倭) (as Japan came to be known)--but truly to the East. Shi Huangdi waited in vain for the return of Xu Fu--but he never did return. Still searching immortality, Shi Huangdi died a year later of exhaustion. Xu Fu became a forgotten figure. Yet Xu Fu had reached land. For, 20,000 Li across an ocean, he HAD found the land of Danzhou (亶州). But that will come later.
The Hellenic World in the Pre-Ongwehonweh Age
The Hellenic World in the Pre-Ongwehonweh Age
It is 1221 BD, and Carthagian Commander-in-Chief Hasdrubal is assassinated on campaign in Spain, not unlike his father-in-law, Hamilcar Barca, Seven years before. His brother-in-law Hannibal is appointed the commander-in-chief of all carthagian forces. Having spent much of his life with his father in spain, Hannibal continues to consolidate Carthage's grip over Iberian Spain. In Egypt, the Ptolemies continue to dissolve under the dissolute Ptolemy IV--as do all three of the Hellenic Empires borne of Alexander (The Ptolemies, the Seleucids and the Macedonian Kingdom). In the Republic of Rome, a city-state stirs, unaware that in a few years it will be on a crash course with first Macedonia and then the greatest naval power of the day, Carthage.
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Sorry that this was rather short, this is my first time doing it, and if I am doing something wrong, please do tell me. Due to the slower development of native American culture, I could not realistically present the story of Christ and Judaism in the same time frame as that of the Eurasian Gospel, and so the time frame will probably distorted by a thousand years. I realize that there would be many unintended consequences out of this, but i do hope that I will be able to find most of them...