Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions by T. W. Doane

star_-- "Fairest of stars, last in the train of Night, If better, thou belongst not to the Dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet"-- which heralds the birth of the god _Sol_, the beneficent Saviour. A glance at a geography of the heavens will show the "chaste, pure, immaculate Virgin, suckling an infant," preceded by a _Star_, which rises immediately preceding the Virgin and her child. This can truly be called "_his Star_," which informed the "Wise Men," the "Magi"--_Astrologers and Sun-worshipers_--and "the shepherds who watched their flocks by night" that the Saviour of Mankind was about to be born.