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The birth of Jesus Christ is said to have been taken place at early as dawn on the 25h day of December. The Christian ceremonies of the Nativity are celebrated in Bethlehem and Rome, even at this present time, very early in the morning.Now, this is the Sun's birthday. At the commencement of the sun's apparent annual revolution round the earth, he was said to have been born, and, on the first moment after midnight of the 24th of December, all the heathen nations of the earth, as if by common consent, celebrated the announcement of the "Queen of Heaven," of the "Celestial Virgin of the Sphere," and the birth of the god Sol.
On that day the sun having fully entered the winter solstice, the Sign of the Virgin was rising on the eastern horizon. The woman's symbol of this stellar sign was represented first by ears of corn, then with a new-born male child in her arms. Such was the picture of the Persian sphere cited by Aben-Ezra:
"the division of the first decan of the Virgin represents a beautiful virgin with flowing har, sitting in a chair, with two ears of corn in her hand, and suckling an infant called Iesus by some nations, and Christ in Greek" (Volney, Ruins, p. 166 and note).
This denotes the Sun, which, at the moment of the winter soltice (25th December), precisely when the Persian magi drew the horoscope of the new year, was placed on the bosom of teh Virgin, rising heliacally in the eastern horizon. On this account he was figured in their astronomical pictures under the form of a child suckled by a chaste virgin (Volney, Ruins, p. 155; Dupuis, Origin of Religious Belief, p. 236).
Thus we see that Christ Jesus was born on the same day as Buddah, Mithras, Osiris, Horus, Hercules, Bacchus, Adonis, and other personifications of the Sun.