In Alma 5:14, we find Alma asking the question, "Have ye spiritually been born of God?" According to Hugh Nibley this verse is alluding to a great birthday celebration for all those who identify with the Great King. In ancient Egypt everybody who was born on the same day as the Pharaoh [the king] had a birthday identified with him. He could go live in the palace with him or anything like that. And in Egypt everybody dated his own birthday not from the day he was born, but from the day the Pharaoh assumed the throne. That was the beginning of years. In the Western world we call it the Natalis, this great birthday. Everybody is born. That's the Saturnalia when everybody celebrates, etc. [Hugh W. Nibley, Teachings of the Book of Mormon, Semester 2, p. 282]