We all know Santa Claus, fat sprightly man who brings presents to good kids and and lumps of coal to the bad ones.
Lifeless the go he has gone supervise a few single guises and we can disbelief him back to a very remarkable ancient history yarn.
The main uniqueness of Santa Claus today are the long white facial hair, mode of steal and his give charitable.
The Santa Claus we know is based on the Sinterklaas who was a traditional Winter holiday form specifically in the Netherlands. The Dutch colonials, important the American War of Adulthood, invigorated their Sinterklaas tradition as a symbol of their non-British former and Sinterklass was multipart with the church overtones of the Christian Saint Nicholas.
The tale of Sinterklass who rode in the region of on a white colt, wore a long white facial hair, carried a staff and had children leaving their boots full of carrots and straw close to the opening for his colt to eat was on the go immediately from the Norse God Odin who was worshipped in North and Western Europe before to Christianisation.
Odin rode the sky with his grey colt, a long white facial hair, carried a cut and salaried children with gifts who positioned their boots close to the opening for his on high colt, Sleipnir, to eat.
It is from these pagan 'Yule period that an assortment of of the Christmas traditions began, built-in at home the Christmas we hang on today such as Christmas trees and the date 25th December which was initial Yule being the pagans inordinate the as the crow flies day in the sphere of the winter solstice and willed the sun to return.
Odin himself was the Germanic support of the Celtic deity Lugus, introduced to the Germanic tribes by the Celtic tribes of main Europe.
Lugus, patron of transform and production, was parade the well-run Celtic variation of the Roman God Mercury and the Romans jogger Mercury was the Greeks Hermes, the bough sandal inwards jogger of the gods, guide to the Underworld and patron of shepherds, literature, poets and production.
So stage we hang on the story of Santa Claus who began life as the jogger of the Dull Greek Gods circa 750 BC and went supervise Mercury, Lugus, Odin, and Sinterklaas to the guy due to pop down the opening in a few days time.
Source: alchemy-and-alchemists.blogspot.com
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
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