Look up into the sky on a winters night, and put yourself into an astrological frame of mind. This is how the best and the brightest of mankind saw the unreachable, unfathomable universe until the last couple of dozen generations. It does not take long to notice a line of 3 bright stars near the ecliptic (the plane of Earth’s orbit) that point to one of the brightest stars in the sky. In modern times, the 3 stars are known as the belt of Orion. Earlier, they were known as part of the constellation of Osiris [1]. Osiris was the Egyptian reborn god of eternal afterlife and salvation. The Great Pyramids are actually aligned in the slightly offset pattern of those stars, not a straight line.
The bright star pointed to by the belt is Sirius, the nose of the constellation Canis Majoris, and thus known as the Dog Star. This star was important to navigation, as it rose in the east and set in the west. Identifying it by following the three stars of Orion’s belt is much like finding Polaris (the North Star) using the stars of the Big Dipper (Ursa Major). The stars of the belt have been known to astrologers and navigators as the Three Wise Men far back into history.
What do these have to do with Jesus? Here is one of many web pages [2] that puts it into historical context. Basically, it comes down to using the Wise Men and the Star of the East to travel day and night to find the astrologically foretold usurper of a local King. There is much more to the story, but I just wanted to point out that the Wise Men were actually a navigational aid that somehow became human Kings during the Rennaissance.
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