The Development of Christian Apocalyptic traditions compared to the Ghost Dance

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The Development of Christian Apocalyptic traditions compared to the Ghost Dance

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TL;DR: The Ghost Dance movement, as I understand it, is proof that fundamentally local, non-apocalyptic religious movements can rapidly transform into globally oriented apocalyptic religious movements even when their founders/key figures did not teach such things.

As evidence that such a thing is possible, I cite the Ghost Dance movement (citing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dance and trusting that its sources are accurate), whose origins can be traced to 1869 as a local movement founded by Wodziwob among the Northern Paiutes living in Mason Valley that claimed only that the dead Northern Paiutes' spirits would return within 3 or 4 years but in 1889-1890 developed into a more overtly universal apocalyptic scheme under the guidance of Wovoka, who claimed that he had stood before God in heaven and had seen many of his ancestors engaged in their favorite pastimes, and that God had showed Wilson a beautiful land filled with wild game and had instructed him to return home to tell his people that they must love each other and not fight. He also stated that Jesus was being reincarnated on earth in 1892, that the people must work, not steal or lie, and that they must not engage in the old practices of war or the traditional self-mutilation practices connected with mourning the dead. He said that if his people abided by these rules, they would be united with their friends and family in the other world, and in God's presence, there would be no sickness, disease, or old age. Then among the Lakota, this movement developed a more violent and terrestrial direction, drawing from their traditional idea of a "renewed Earth" in which "all evil is washed away". This Lakota interpretation included the removal of all European Americans from their lands: "They told the people they could dance a new world into being. There would be landslides, earthquakes, and big winds. Hills would pile up on each other. The earth would roll up like a carpet with all the white man's ugly things – the stinking new animals, sheep and pigs, the fences, the telegraph poles, the mines and factories. Underneath would be the wonderful old-new world as it had been before the white fat-takers came. ...The white men will be rolled up, disappear, go back to their own continent." — Lame Deer. I am not saying that the Ghost Dance movement perfectly parallels Christianity (after all, none of the later leaders were claiming to be Wodziwob or even Wovoka - excepting, of course, Wodziwob and Wovoka themselves), but the Ghost Dance movement is proof that fundamentally local, non-apocalyptic religious movements can rapidly transform into globally oriented apocalyptic religious movements even when their founders/key figures did not teach such things. This, of course, is relevant to both the minimal historical Jesus believed in by me, Gmirkin, and Parvus (in which Jesus did not preach while upon the Earth) and to the more expansive historical Jesus whom you admit others have accepted (who was a preacher but not an apocalyptic preacher).
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