Khronos and Rhea

In the above link, Rhea presents a stone disguised as baby Zeus wrapped in swaddling clothes to Khronos, ruler of the Titans, who promptly swallows it as he had swallowed all his children so that none would usurp his rule. Zeus was then taken away in secret to Crete and suckled by a divine goat. Right, Mary presents baby Jesus wrapped in swaddling clothes to Joseph. Jesus was then taken away in secret to escape the wrath of the ruler Herod who had children slaughtered fearing one of them would usurp his rule. The same story is told of Moses. When Pharaoh (unnamed of course) ordered the deaths of all of the Hebrew children in the land, Moses was set afloat in a basket on the Nile and eventually rescued. The same type of story is told of Horus, Krishna and Zoroaster.

All these savior-gods preceded Jesus by at least 600 years, some by more than a millennium. The story is repeated in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet in a different form: The villain, an uncle of the child-hero, kills his father the king and takes the hero's mother as his queen and would kill the child-hero to prevent him from usurping his reign except that the hero feigns madness (a substitute of fleeing to some far off land) while plotting to avenge his father's death.

Hamlet descended from an earlier story of Amlethus told by Saxo Grammaticus in the 12th century. Hamlet is set in Denmark. Amlethus is set in Norway. The same story is told in Irish lore concerning Amlodhe. The same story is found in Finland with the hero Kullervo and also in Iranian lore with Kai Khusrau. It is also the basic plot reenacted in the mumming plays mentioned earlier. It is the true story of Christmas and it is written in the zodiac according to the fascinating (but very scholarly) book, "Hamlet's Mill," by Giorgio de Santillana and Herta von Dechend.