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Originally Posted by Yahwe
It's a good enough account but once again we see the limits of wiki.
They seem to know nothing of Sol Invictus who was briefly head of the Imperial pantheon under Emperor Elagabalus. When Aurelian took the purple he re-instated Sol Invictus (who's birthday was the 25th of Decemeber) and enforced the 25th as an imperial celebration. Constantine just swapped sol invictus for joshua bar-joseph.
(also that wiki account confuses some mithraic traditions with zoroaster )
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you could edit those bits in you know.
that's the point of wikipedia... rather than complaining about it...