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Andrew, you wrote:
"As far as the rising in the west, my version of the Bible says the
"east."  My Symtopticon say "we have seen the rising of his star." I
have to check some other translisations for the "rising in the west."
but that is as far as I can remember."

I didn't (intend to) say "rising in the west". What I meant is that
they apparently had to go in west direction to be able to see a
particular situation in the sky (at least) in the dawn (morning
twilight), which further east, where they came from, wouldn't have
been visible due to the daylight. This assumes that they had a
knowledge on how the visible sky changes by travelling in east/west
direction. May be they learned also how the position of the moon
changes relative to the other stars by travelling in north/south
direction.

My reflections are now that the 3 Magi may have associated the birth
of a king to a location where a particular situation in the sky was
*visible*. From their observations they may have been able to conclude
that in order to see this event they would have to travel x days to
the east and y days e.g. to the south, realising that this would
correspond to Jerusalem.

Marcel

In the meantime we passed also into 2009. Happy New Year to all of you
out there!

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