food with a lot of connotations from being a term for food as a whole and of course in christianity you were going to symbolize the body of christ maybe bethlehem was a place full of food production or maybe they just made some dark good bread there perhaps the key location of all of this nativity however is the location where baby jesus was actually born he was of course born in a stable how this stable does not seem to have a specific name of any kind however let's look into where that word came from anyway as i find it interesting it comes from the latin stapholun which means a standing place whether that be a place with farm animals or any kind of animal what's interesting is that steve was also gone on to become an adjective meaning something is unlikely to collapse metaphorically or literally this meaning for the word also comes from latin but with a different latin word that being stabilis meaning firm and steadfast so both meanings for stable in english come from two different latin words however these two latin words come from the same proto in the european root of star meaning to stand or make firm i just find it really interesting however that these words came back around to sound the same despite somewhat diverging during their time in latin once born in the stable jeez was put to sleep in a manger mangers have now become synonymous with the baby jesus sleeping in them however they actually large troughs that farm animals eat out of this wasn't stable after all it's this action of eating as to where the name for this makeshift crib actually comes from as it ultimately derives from the latin word for eating and chewing this was probably a tad more obvious to french speakers as to eat in french is literally margie albeit it's pronounced a tad differently compared to manger there are other locations in the nativity however though this is where things start to get a little bit vague an example the shepherds who came to visit the gospel of luke says they were from the same country staying in a field but does not point out where exactly they were like i said vagueness then we have the three wise men or magi or kings as they are also known as they're some of the more intriguing figures in the story of the nativity there's a handful of ideas as to where they came from ranging from ethiopia arabia india and even china ideas range from all three are just one of them coming from each of these lands i shan't go into all the details as these are place names that we've covered in previous videos the most popular idea as to where they came from however is persia for ease's sake persia is basically the previous name of modern day iran though there is a tad mod to it however the name persia is fought to come from the past of people who once lived here i may have covered this before my iraq iran video but i'm tired and don't fully remember that's the majority of known locations of the nativity however though the aforementioned vagueness of names carries over into the names of characters too the wise men are often known as just that they're believed to have actual names however those being metacure casper and balthazar pretty cool names i
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