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or, as we can pun in english, to have the Son replace / be symbolized
by the Sun . . . .
What i would really like to know is WHEN the celebration of
Christmas on the 25th is first attested?
and what about Peter and Paul (dont they coincide with a celebration
of Romulus and Remus)?
>Or was, perhaps, Christianity, at least in part, being coopted as an
>official imperial cult, to replace that of the Unconquered Sun?
>Curiously,
>Jim Bugslag
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