Translations:Ḏušarē/15/en

"The leaders of the idolaters … in many places hold a great feast on the very night of Epiphany… First in Alexandria in the Koreion as they call it – a very large temple, the precinct of Kore (Isis). All night long they keep vigil, chanting to their idol with songs and flutes. They keep it up the entire night, and after cockcrow torchbearers descend into an underground shrine and bring up a wooden statue seated naked on a litter with the imprint of a golden cross on its forehead, two similar imprints on its hands, and other two on its knees, all told, five golden marks impressed upon it. They carry the image itself seven times round the central part of the temple with flutes, kettledrums and hymns. And after the procession they bring it down again to its underground quarters. If asked what they mean by this mystery, they answer: This day and hour Kore (that is, the Virgin), has engendered Aeon (a personification of time). This is also done in the city of Petra, the metropolis of Arabia, that is the Edom mentioned in the Scriptures,in the temple of the idol there. They hymn the virgin in the speech of Arabia, calling her in Arabic Chaamou, that is “Kore”, or “Virgin,” and the one born from her Dusares, that is “Only-begotten of the Lord.” The rite is also performed in the city of Elusa on that night as in Petra and Alexandria."