Australia Post have issued a set of five stamps to celebrate Christmas Season 2012.
The traditional Christmas story is presented in two of the five stamps from this year's Christmas stamp issue. The rest stamps depict the illustration related to the Christmas theme.
These religious stamps are based on the Adoration of the Magi, a wool and silk tapestry in the Art Gallery of South Australia.
The tapestry shows three richly garbed magi, or kings, offering their gifts of myrrh, frankincense and gold to the Christ child. Matthew's gospel tells how the magi traveled afar from the east, and their origin is suggested by their turbans and embroidered clothing as well as by the dark skin colour of one of the kings.
The Virgin and Child are seated on a mound of hay within the manger (55c), while Joseph, pausing from his labour of wood chopping, witnesses the reverential scene.
An attendant angel appears in the background, with the illuminating star held in his hands. All around there is a profusion of flowers, including the lily, rose, iris, periwinkle,pansy and snowdrop, which are all acknowledged as symbols of the Virgin.
The other stamps in the issue are non-religious. The brightly coloured, celebratory subjects are suggestive of familiar Christmas carols "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas", "Jingle Bells" and "Ding Dong Merrily on High". The style is deliberately naïve, intended to recall a child's delight at Christmas time.
Several of the religious festivals during the Christmas and holiday season are celebrated with the exchanges of gifts.
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