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Posted on 10/07/2024 5:41:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The elaborate story that we know today can be found in the Historia Trium Regum, the History of the Three Kings, which is attributed to the fourteenth-century cleric John of Hildesheim. In this compilation of the legend, we are told much more about the star: "When the day of the nativity was passed the Star ascended up into the firmament, and it had right many long streaks and beams, more burning and brighter than a brand of fire; and as an eagle flying and beating the air with his wings, right so the streaks and beams of the Star stirred about." And we are told that the three wise men, named Melchior, Balthazar, and Gaspar, are the kings of "Ind, Chaldea, and Persia." ...and they ordained that the Hill of Vaws should be the place of their burial."
...If so, the kings had little more than two centuries of rest in their tomb before beginning another journey. Their tour director would be Helena, the mother of Constantine and now St. Helena. After 323-324, when he defeated his last rival, Constantine began rebuilding the city of Byzantium. He rededicated it as Constantinople in the year 330. One of the new buildings was the church Saint Sophia (Holy Wisdom), the first of three that would have that name. In the same period, Helena went to the Holy Land and collected various relics, including the true cross, and brought them home to Constantinople (see Cynewulf for an unusual retelling of this). The relics of the wise men were among her trophies...
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Michael R. Molnar is a retired astrophysicist having worked on satellite observations of peculiar stars with abnormal element abundances. Molnar is best known for his ground-breaking publication, The Star of Bethlehem. He has extensive experience in programming, fiber optic applications, CNC machining, and most recently violin making with an emphasis on Cremonese varnish systems.Michael Molnar | Introduction | ResearchGate
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Towards the end of the article they mention that the Bible doesn’t say there were three men. (Or that they were all men - although I bet they were.) The idea of three men comes from the three gifts.
Also - it was probably a huge caravan of people and animals that was used in support of the wealthy magi to cover such a long trek.
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