... tells of the wise men from the east who asked, "Where is the baby born to be king of the Jews? We saw his star when it came up in the east, and we have come to worship him." King Herod called for the visitors and sent them to look for the child. When they were on their way they saw the same star and it went ahead of them until it came and stopped over the place where the child was. They went into the house, worshiped him and then opened their bags and offered him presents: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. God warned them in a dream not to go back to Herod; so they went back to their country by another road. In the story of Siddhartha's birth, Queen Maya, wife of Raja Shuddhodana of the Kingdom of Kapilavastu, dreamed that an elephant with six tusks and a head the ...

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