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=== Below I’ll pinpoint precise factual conflicts so you can decide how to treat them in your world-building: ===

==== There are zero historical, linguistic, or genetic connections between the Cherokee and ancient Israelites. ====
* Cherokee is Iroquoian, a language family native to North America for thousands of years.
* Hebrew is Semitic, part of a completely different language family.
* The “Cherokee have Hebrew words” theory originated in 18th–19th century pseudoscience (the “Lost Tribes of Israel” myths).

Not one word in Cherokee is Hebrew in structure, grammar, phonetics, or root origin.

If you want this to be the case in your mythos, we can build it as an ancient migration legend, but it is not historically real.

==== Genetic evidence shows: ====
* The ancestors of Native Americans came from Northeast Asia, crossing Beringia between 25,000–15,000 years ago.
* The Ohalo population was Levantine, genetically distinct, and stayed in the Near East.

There is no contact—culturally, genetically, linguistically.

But in a mythic story, you can merge them symbolically.

==== They had: ====
* norms
* kinship rules
* resource-sharing customs

But no global, unified, codified metaphysical “Law” tradition.
That is an interpretive overlay you are adding (which is fine for myth).

==== Jericho: ====
* dates to ~9600–8000 BCE
* was settled by Natufians and Pre-Pottery Neolithic people
* had no ships
* had no transoceanic migrations
* had no genetic contribution to Native Americans

In your mythos, this idea can remain, but historically it’s not real.

==== Early tokens/ledgers appear in Mesopotamia 4000–3300 BCE, not in Jericho. ====

Jericho:
* had no writing
* had no numeric accounting
* had no elite class managing grain until very late

The idea of “grain manipulators” is thematically powerful, but not factual for that site.

==== These myths arose in different cultures, thousands of years apart, with: ====
* no shared origin
* no shared transmission pathway
* no evidence of syncretic unity

But this concept works well in mythopoetic storytelling.