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Originally Posted by htismaqe
I believe in order for the star to be in the position in which it was described, it would have had to been summer.
However, it's also necessary to remember that the timeline roughly coincides with the introduction of the Julian calendar, so April would have been the 2nd month of the year.
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I don't really want to get into a religous debate but from what I have read and given the context of religion, christian and otherwise, I firmly believe it was a calculated move for one reason or the other to adopt the winter solstice as a holiday then rename it to suit the context of said religion.
Unfortunately christmas is not the only example of this but that is for another thread.