>identifying Adam with Buddha>using the cross as a sacred amulet symbolising the four directions >identifying Jesus with the number 9>rejected church structureMongolian syncretic >influenced Mongolian shamanistic and Buddhist thought Christianity seemed esoteric as fuck, shame that the old-school pre-Catholic influence Christian Mongolians never got introduced to Kabbalah (I mean of course they wouldn’t, Kabbalah didn’t even exist as we know it today then aside from proto-Kabbalistic mysticism, and it would be restricted to certain rabbis for a long time etc. I am merely talking in hypotheticals here) they would have made a field day with it, I am sad that we never got to see shamanism and Buddhism influenced Mongolian Kabbalah. If there is this hyper-obscure family somewhere in the far reaches of Mongolia that kept this niche form of Nestorian Christianity down a family line, uninfluenced by orthodoxy, Mormonism or Catholicism, somebody needs to introduce them to the Kabbalah, and the ancient Gnostic texts and see the insane shit they come up with. What is your favourite example of syncretic religion? Especially when it’s two forms of religions or spiritual belief system that would stereotypically and orthodoxly seem extremely incompatible, but a culture makes it evolve in a way that gives tremendous insight and a new perspective of the belief systems being syncretised? Even if it’s the syncretism between two different pagan pantheons etc.
