Zalmoxis Cult into Modern Monotheism

The Dacians had one of the most advanced religions compared to their polytheistic neighbors, including the Romans. The Dacians primarily worshipped the Thracian quasi-god Zalmoxis with a mix of Celtic and Germanic influences. How could the Dacian Cult of Zalmoxis have developed into organized Monotheism? Like that of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
 

Zagan

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The Dacians / Daco-Romans / Proto Romanians simply conflated Zamolxis / Zalmoxis with Christ and Bendis with Saint Mary, etc. Slowly this religious syncretism withered away and all what was left was Orthodox Christianity (just like in many other parts of Christianized Europe).
 
The Dacians / Daco-Romans / Proto Romanians simply conflated Zamolxis / Zalmoxis with Christ and Bendis with Saint Mary, etc. Slowly this religious syncretism withered away and all what was left was Orthodox Christianity (just like in many other parts of Christianized Europe).

Do you have any sources on this?
 
Best bet is probably a pre-Christianity timeline where the major world religions we know are nipped in the bud for the most part. Zalmoxis could probably be reinvented as a mystery cult along the lines of Mithras or Cybele, or maybe even more. However the key to mass appeal around the Mediterranean would be a degree of Hellenism in their practice, and I'm not sure the Dacians were ever sufficiently Hellenized to make that work.

I mean if you look at it from the perspective of all possible timelines, the idea that some Semitic religion would end up gaining a dominant position in whole Greco-Roman world is almost absurd. Christianity provided a sort of perfect storm, much as Buddhism or Zoroastrianism did in their own times, or Islam would centuries later. Religions are odd and interesting from a sociological standpoint!
 

Zagan

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Do you have any sources on this?
I do NOT have sources on most of my knowledge.

Had I attempted to memorize both the actual useful data and the sources for them, I would have either needed several times more memory or memorized several times less information.
 
I do NOT have sources on most of my knowledge.

Had I attempted to memorize both the actual useful data and the sources for them, I would have either needed several times more memory or memorized several times less information.

I have asked you about any sources because I am interested about this subject but I found only vague infos or absurdly fantasy theories (like the Dacians were monotheistic, they were Christians before Christ, etc.)

Personally I do not buy the theory of syncretism in conversion, but it's just my opinion.
On the other hand, the peasantry keep tons of pagan customs and superstitions way up to 21 century... which have little or nothing Christian. Still, I do not believe in associations of gods with saints and such made at large scale. I repeat, I do not have books and armies of historians backing me...

Now, concerning the original question, I do see the surviving Zamolxianism only in context of butterflying the Christianity all together (and Islam).
 
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