Well, it’s not super in-depth, but for starters, that they’ve spent millennia as an underground religion because of the threat of arrest and execution by an authoritarian state is awfully familiar!
Beyond that though, the value placed on the Hebitian Records as “the book in which all things are written” is very similar to how Jews think of the Torah. We’re legit called “the people of the book”, and, like the Hebitians, for some of us, it’s just about all we have left of our ancestors. Astraea’s quest for the Hebitian Records is a very Jewish concept.
The only Oralian prayer we know has the lines “It is the song of morning, opening up to life, bringing truth of her wisdom to those who live in the shadow of the night.” Which reminds me a lot of the Jewish prayer, “It is a tree of life to all who hold fast to it; its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace.”
The Cardassian idea that “oh, the Hebitians were Savage and Foolish and they all died out” while the Hebitians’ descendants are RIGHT THERE, quietly minding their own business, is also uncomfortable familiar. A lot of evangelical Christians talk about us like that!
