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Traditional-Meat-549 t1_iz5icjk wrote

Reply to comment by Override9636 in TIL "The Twelve Days of Christmas" STARTS on Christmas Day, and ends of January 5th (Three Kings Day). by HauntedHippie

Balthasar, Gaspar and Melchior...likely Arabs/Egyptions/Africans - not "kings" but maybe necromancers or seers - in the Persian Zoroastrian faith or perhaps a nature-based religion.

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314R8 t1_iz634es wrote

Magi was as term used to describe Persian Zoroastrian faith leaders who studied astrology.

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herbw t1_iz6rkv4 wrote

Anotehr tie in to the pagans. Clearly, Zoroastrians worshipped the sun. Likely source for Easter and Xmas.

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Traditional-Meat-549 t1_iz9f1v1 wrote

if you consider, literally every religion is a "tie to the pagans"...its where we begin as a species here. People with intellect want to make meaning out of their existence.

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