The Twelve Days until and including Epiphany

This post, ladies and gentlemen, is starting now at 00:12 GMT, just into December 26 … or in other words, we have just entered The Second Day of Christmas.

This was the previous discussion which this post follows on from:

Any “Day of Christmas” includes a morning, an afternoon and an evening.  Where the confusion can come in is to ask, “Well when, then, is the night? Shirley it follows evening?”

Logic would agree with that but this is not logical from here-on-in.  In Russia, yes, there was evening, followed by night next calendar day. However, in the west, we might ask, “What are we doing tonight?” … meaning, “What are we doing this evening?”

When applied to Twelfth Night, it’s not a reference to the nighttime after midnight but to the period before and ending with midnight January 5th, before Epiphany begins.

Let’s say we now agree we’ve ticked over into Epiphany, January 6th … what then is Epiphany, what does it mean?

Were we to accept the Wiki explanation above, which imho is a good one, then what coincided with the visit of the Magi … let’s not define them for now, nor their number … usually 3 (western) or 12 (eastern)?

Was it not Herod asking the Magi to report back to him, once the Magi had found this child, “in order to also worship him or pay homage”?

And by the Magi failing to report back, instead going home by their own routes, did that not infuriate Herod in the story, leading to the dream in which the Holy Family of Three were warned to fly into Egypt tout suite?  Meanwhile, Herod pronounced his edict or whatever.