"The feast of Aion is
attested most clearly in Egypt where it seems to have been a local
festival with deep roots in the Hellenistic city of Alexandria, of which Aion was the mythical
founder and patron deity. The most detailed account concerning the
ritual which took place in the night of 5-6 January comes from Epiphanius, whose
description explains how a small wooden statue of the baby god of time
was carried in procession at the hour on which he had been born of the virgin Kore."
- Toward the origins of
Christmas, by Susan K. Roll, p. 34