From: blueshirt@indigo.news   
      
   The True Melissa wrote:   
      
   > Verily, in article <10jlg0b$jgjk$1@dont-email.me>, did daniel47   
   > @nomail.afraid.org deliver unto us this message:   
   > > Both occasions MAY have happened on the same DATE but   
   > > certainly NOT in the same YEAR.   
   >   
   > It really feels like they wanted to mark that date for   
   > other reasons (it was a pagan holiday?), came up with several   
   > different pretexts, and then glommed all of them together.   
      
   Correct! January 6th was originally a Pagan festival, something   
   about worshipping the rising of the sun...   
      
   Like a lot of Christian festivals it was stolen/adapted...   
   delete as appropriate.   
      
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