Existing fabric at the present Unesco’s heritage site in Palestine is not crucial to understanding of its biblical significance. The Church of the Nativity, its monastic complexes, the town of Bethlehem, and the Pilgrimage Route collectively do not constitute the beginnings of the story of the Christianity and are not all the original biblical sites which can claim their outstanding universal value through the narratives of the OT.

All geographical elements of the original church history are not associated with the descriptions of this site; people have been led to believe that ‘the place where the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem now stands is where Jesus was born’.

The original basilica church of 339 AD (St Helena) refers to this Church’s site at ‘Basilica’ itself; and basilica is as same as Basileon of the Kings that identifies the city of Baisali or Vaisali, or Bisala of other ancient literature. The ‘octagonal eastern end’ of the present site is a product of migrants’ reminiscence of their original homeland at Jerusalem on the ‘East’ of the ‘inhabited world’ which was at the centre of the seats of worships of Eight Gods or the Astarte. Jerusalem marks the Seat of Worship of Yama, the God of Death. It was the site of the ancient ‘Volcano’ which Moses encountered before he and his followers entered into Canaan. There is no differences in the meaning of ‘Astarte’ and ‘Austine’ as both of them significantly means ‘Eight’ or ‘Asta’(of Odiay language).

Traditional entrance of ancient Bethlehem are identified with King David’s Wells,  the Star Street, the Damascus Gate, or Qos Al-Zarara, and the Manger Square. Biblical scholarship failed to understand the historical meanings of these terms whose geographical elements were clouded and lost with their English translation. Most of the Hebrew words have lost their original meaning when meanings were extracted to explain biblical events of the OT.

Biblical scholars do not know the ‘birth-star’ of Jesus Christ; this Star City very brilliantly marks this ‘Star’ which is identified with the word ‘Manger’ whose root is ‘Magian’, or the ‘Magha’,  identifying the Dog Star. This was also the Kingship Star of David. The ‘Well’ linked with David pinpoints it with the Mt Moriah or the land of the Peacock. Therefore Bethlehem is where Bethany is; and this identifies a ‘Tree’ as well as a Goddess. Jesus Christ’s mother Mary marks her clan with Moeris or Mayura or the land of the Peacock or the Mauryan land. So Mahri or Mayura country which is associated with God Chemosh marks the place where Jesus was born.  ‘Christ’ was the ‘title’ that pinpoints a land in Mt Caucasus region and the term identifies the ‘group’ of followers of the ancient world. Palestine thus refers to a region and it does not identify either a clan or a particular land but a region of different tribes. It is ‘prastha’ of Indian puranas and also identifies itself with ‘basta’ of the Pali texts. It was a on the ‘south’ and marks the Plain of the river Tigris.

Damascus Gate similarly pinpoints the land of the Edomites or the land of the Seir or the Lion’s people as the neighbours of the people of Jerusalem, and Qos Al-Zarara, surprisingly and significantly, completes the geographical identity of the ancient Jerusalem by putting two names: Qos and  Zarara with it. While Qos is as same as Cos of Ptolemy and pinpoint the Kosala kingdom, Zarara identifies Zered or Zarudhira very close to the ancient Bethlehem and Luz and Elephantine. It identifies the place of residence of Jara or Zara, the first priest of the ancient world associated also with the story of Ahura Mazda.

The monastic communities linked with this site are seen through the names of the Churches at this site; Armenian, Franciscan, and the Greek(Orthodox). Ancient identity of the Armenia is found through the name of Aram, the descendants of Parsu-Rama; Franciscans were the ‘frank’ people, and the Greek Orthodox were identified with Greeks residing in Ithica or the Athaka or the Oththak on the bank of the river Saraswati, same as the Styx.

So the present Palestine is the settlement of migrants from these three places only who were geographically associated with the divine elements of their region linked to ‘Christ’. Jesus birthplace was at Nazareth and this should be searched through the accounts of the Periplus and through Ptolemy’s geographical accounts of the ancient world.