Is the Veleda timeline entirely prevented? The Tacitus Two text comes from it.
In the history that is known to us, Burhmund/Civilis made peace with Rome whereas in Veleda's divergent timeline:
Burhmund was crushed;
the prophetess, Veleda, returned to free Germany where her new religion spread;
it grew and developed without competition after her death;
the goddess became the supreme figure, appealing to women who influenced their children;
with the Western Empire collapsed, Christianity did not admit its North European converts to the commerce and culture of civilization;
instead, the Nerthus faith became the core of a Germanic civilization, able, like Zoroastrian Persia, to resist Christianity;
the world was very different by the twentieth century;
"'That's what we're trying to head off,' Everard said harshly." (p. 569)
Only wanting to post once more today, I preferred to return to "Star of the Sea" than to stay with Dinosaur Beach but I will try to get the rest of the latter read and out of the way this evening.
Tomorrow, a new month. We approach the end of the first quarter-century of the Third Millennium. I wish that I could look forward with confidence to a long future ahead.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And it's fortunate nothing like that Veleda timeline came to exist in our real world, because it would have delayed and hindered the spreading of the saving Good News of Christ.
Btw, recall how Stirling discussed that by about AD 600, Sassanid Persia was well on the way to becoming Christianized. Zoroastrianism was the faith of most of the aristocracy, but Christianity was was spreading among the rest of the population. Another century or two and Persia might have become a Christian realm. The Muslim jihads under Mohammed's successors aborted that.
Ad astra! Sean
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