> D.Leeper wrote.
> 
> ...and, accordng to "The Golden Bough", Jesus's
> his birthday was orginally Jan 20th!  It was 
> moved to Dec 25th in order to take over the 
> celebrations of, drum roll please, Lucifer!,
> the Sun God.
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> Puleease!
> 
> The december festival was the Saturnus Festival.
> 
> SATURN's Day.
[CLIP]
> Astronomer's place the occurance of a super nova in June/July of a year
> that might have been around when he was born, but again-- speculation.
> 
> (I got the above info from a planetarium show I attended years ago--- So
> I don't know how accurate it is.)
I think there are at least four bizarre planet conjunctions in 
the general time span, let alone supernovae.  I'll buy the planetarium 
show.  Specificity isn't really there....
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