As we've seen, establishing a fiction that works to place himself at the scene of a nativity that obviously occurs 1600 years and change before his own birth.
On the eve of His nativity, Jesus' family was poor and homeless, and so He was born in a stable, surrounded by animals.
My landlord's daughter and I would create a unique nativity of our own.
Another Catalonian tradition is the Caganer, a Christmas statue found in nativity scenes in Andorra and parts of Spain, Italy, and Portugal.
You can make them in any colour you like (I prefer them white actually) and I think they look lovely hanging off a branch over the table, the nativity, over someones bed even.
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
