The competing theory to the old "Sol Invictus" dating for Christmas is that the vernal equinox was metaphorically considered the day of man's creation. So Mary gets pregnant by the Spirit on the vernal equinox and nine months later Jesus is born. That was March and this is now, at least in theory. Today is the beginning of Passover, or one day after Einstein died in '55 ... depending on your competing theory. Yet it must be the advent of something ... maybe an earthquake, a superior performance of Mozart's Prague Symphony, or a new invention involving caffeine.
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