Looking at his companion with squinted eyes, Ruthra replied to such with a shadow of irony:

– I'm guessing what you're basing it on.

– Agree, Jesus essentially carried the ideas of the beliefs of Hellenic culture, which is why both Greece itself and the Hellenic oikoumene so readily accepted his teachings. Although, to be precise, they shaped his teachings. You can find out more about this in a later post. You need to make a request to your center to be allowed to follow me on the chronology of some worlds.

– What do you want to show me?

– There are worlds in our system where Jesus is not killed on the cross. The Jews adopt first Hellenic culture and later Christian culture. This caused them to actually multiply – like the sand of the sea. If you remember, this is what God supposedly promised Abraham. But that is not the most important thing. Since there was no antagonism – Islam did not appear.

– But that's just in your system. In ours, on the contrary, Islam appeared six centuries after the death of Jesus. First as a separate branch of his teachings, which proclaimed the impossibility of God and the rejection of idolatry.

– Christianity already proclaims the rejection of idolatry.

– Proclaim proclaims proclaim, but they also proclaim the rejection of icons…do not make an idol of yourself and so on, but in reality....

– Uh-huh.

– So, in our world, not only Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Protestantism interact, let's say, but also Islam. That is, we have Islam together with them, a branch of one religion.

– How's that?

– It goes like this. Originally, and even now in many ways, Islam and Christian denominations, such as Orthodoxy, have a lot in common.

– Nothing is clear, but it's very interesting.

Having caught the incomprehension of his interlocutor, the mysterious world traveler hastened to explain his position:

– I'm kidding. And we have them in origin, a branch of the same religion. And we have a lot in common. For example, Jesus in Islam is Isa, Moses is Musa, Abraham is Ibrahim, and so on. And the history is very similar. I am more interested in how you decided to act, how to influence the world?

– We need to get the story straight first.

– With the rebellion?

– And with a sequel.

– And what was it? – The Rabbi asked with genuine interest.

To which Rutra had a legitimate question: Why is the rabbi so interested in this particular thing? After all, he is a participant himself. Although each of us would not be interested in what it would be like in life if we acted differently in this or that situation than we once did – how would our lives be different? Rutra decided to play his part, to develop the situation.

– Having quelled the revolt in Jerusalem, Antiochus Epiphanes further intensified his punitive measures against the Jews. He wanted to unite the Jews, or rather the Judeans, with the Greeks, or rather the Hellenes, in every possible way. That's the kind of thing. And, following the plan, he was not a stranger to any cruelty, which was characteristic of the ancient world, but for the modern world too. Antiochus issues a decree that all Jews must necessarily honor the Greek gods and must not perform the rites of their religion. Everywhere in Judea statues of pagan gods were erected on which pigs were sacrificed. The scrolls of the Holy Scriptures were covered with images of pagan gods. A large statue of Zeus was placed on the sacred altar of the Jerusalem temple, and worship was held before it. By the way, many became Hellenists and voluntarily obeyed Greek orders. Such apostates received honorable positions and generous rewards. But many still refused to betray their religion, hid in the mountains and in caves, and from there raided their own and strangers, in towns and villages. Does this ring a bell?

– Do you still get that?

– Don't you have one?

– We are all enlightened to the bone, literally and figuratively. The system of analysis, long before you are born, knows what you will be like, and even recommends parents to conceive in this or that period. To be more precise, conception is completely artificial.

– I see," Ruthra replied with a kind of doom and shared the situation in his world, "we have it, but it's very individual.

Said was yet another reason for the silence surrounding the understanding of worlds.

They walked on, looking at each other alternately, looking around and turning around. When they had walked fifteen paces in silence, the Bedouin pointed to a tree a little farther away from them. They had almost reached some sort of settlement, near which two donkeys were tethered. "Strange that no one has followed us," thought Ruthra.

– We are afraid of development, afraid of the consequences," Rutra expressed his vision of such a method of birth and continuation of the human race.

His companion looked at him questioningly again. It was very hot. Ruthra wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve. The rabbi took out of his leather bag something that looked like a gourd. It was a kalebasa, a vessel made from the dried fruit of the bottle gourd. This or similar vessels for storing food, especially for drinks, had been used in the ancient world, and in some places even now, in different parts of the world, on different continents, so Rutra was not surprised at the Rabbi's suggestion to use a kalebat. He felt gratitude and some surprise – why Joseph, that is, he, did not have such a vessel. The Rabbi, having offered water, brought Rutra out of his reverie and continued his story about his worlds.

– You should be worried," he said, looking around while Joseph drank water. – At first we had it like you, too, and even blocked the pituitary gland through a chip so that it wouldn't ovulate, but then it all came to a bad end. Ladies began to use the reproductive system for their own purposes. To be more precise, the world was divided into male and female parts. Not all of it, of course, but the groups were huge, down to the countries. The battle began. That's actually why I'm here.

– What's the battle? Battle of the sexes?

– Yes, the great battle of the sexes. Women formed a matriarchal kingdom on the moon. Then they began to take over the countries. All of the Middle East and Asia Minor serve the matriarchy. The great Mairam reigns there.

– Oh, my God, wow.

– Yeah, that's the way it is. All because of a man's invention. He made it possible to fertilize an egg with a technique–" the rabbi hesitated a bit, "very classified, something with stem cells and chromosomes. And so it went. Women intercepted the technology and rejected men. And to be honest, they rejected men because men rejected them first.

– Android?

– Android.

– Light me in the dawn. It's the same everywhere.

– The worlds are parallel. What about you?

– We still have all of this experimentally, in its infancy, as it were. But it is a very promising direction.

– We too were enthusiastic about it at first, and then, when they let the genie out of the bottle....

They looked at each other again, and Joseph had an astonished look on his face. The Rabbi explained:

– The technology went first, but afterward the ladies took over and gave the males a shove.

– What do you mean?

Ruthra stopped. The look on his face showed that the effect of what the ISKI from the alternate worlds had said had not softened the blow; his face had become more tense. Seeing this, an already wary Rangit added:

– They made an android lover too, and now men were no longer needed. This became the premise of the battle. By the way, the ladies have equipped their android with the logic of power. He has had a program shoved into him that he must reach the number 100 to not be rejected by his androids. According to the program put into him, he must always maintain the integrity of his body.