New Years day falls on the eighth day after Jesus birth; it was the date Jesus was actually considered a human and gained a name, became a Jew and suffered a small loss.
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You count the 25th. So it is the eight day. "25,26,27,28,29,30,31,1"
The reason for this was of course infant mortality. Unless the child lived awhile the likelihood of dying remained very high. If it made it into the second week the odds of the child staying alive went up considerably.
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Remember, the idea of a universal time or even date is a fairly new concept. At the time these traditions were developed things like the day or times were determined locally and there were even different ways of celebrating holidays based on whether a city was walled or not.
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Yes, but getting barely into the second week could not have mattered all that much over say the seventh day. And I suspect that sawing away on the new born's johnson did not help much with the infant mortality rate.
I don't doubt you believe that but I've never seen any real evidence to support that concept. However it did make lots of sense from an identity position that would far outweigh any increase in infant mortality.
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