#santa is a myth

[jim-fetter-illustrations]

HO, Ho, Ho,.................Hoax!

The fantasy of Santa has changed over the decades.

Santa's images have gone through marketing transitions during the years to get more of that cash flowing for his industry creators. Santa wasn't always illustrated as a jolly soul with a red coat, rosy cheeks, big white beard, portly belly, and black boots.

Ya see, Prior to 1931, Santa was illustrated as a tall gaunt man looking like a spooky character by the christian church as Saint Nicholas in the 4th-century, and that's what all other Santa's evolved and were created from, The Church!

From that point on Santa was created by The Harper's Weekly Magazine, by their illustrator Thomas Nast who was originally a political cartoonist for the magazine but was commissioned to do a modern Santa that would generate sales for industry who ran continuous advertisements in Harper's Weekly.

Next we had Clement C. Moore,

The New York poet who published the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas in 1823, which is also known as Twas the Night Before Christmas. In the poem, Santa is described as driving a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer, filling stockings with presents, and landing on roofs.

Then we had tons of Coca-Cola advertisements for Santa Claus in the 1930s. And Coke's Santa was a portly, white-bearded man in a red suit with a black belt and white fur trim.

Our European neighbors invented their own legends, and mythology of Santa called "Sinterklaas" which became Santa Claus, and Kris Kindle became Kris Kringle, and that folklore take a whole different path to the whole Christmas thing.

The image of Santa Claus had evolved over the centuries, but the origins of the character are purely from religious organizations to get people to BELIEVE, and believe in whatever the church suggested was reality, even if it was just an illusion, a fantasy, a fairy tale, and now the church was saying it was really real!

If you can imagine such a hoax being Perpetuated upon humanity,.... but people did believe it, because it was after all from the church that invented Jesus, and God,... and today Santa generates billions for industry and the covertly, the church even though Santa is never mentioned in the bible.

But SANTA backwards is the Greek name "Atanas" which is a shortened form of "Athanasios," which means "immortal", just like God is....... interesting to say the least.

Ho, Ho, Ho.......... Hoax!

[pratchettquotes]

Holiday Theme: Happy Hogswatch

"Now...tell me..."

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM?

"Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?"

NO.

"Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact."

THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN.

"Really? Then what would have happened, pray?"

A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.

They walked in silence for a moment.

"Ah," said Susan dully. "Trickery with words. I would have thought you'd have been more literal-minded than that."

I AM NOTHING IF NOT LITERAL-MINDED. TRICKERY WITH WORDS IS WHERE HUMANS LIVE.

Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

[redbootsindoriath]

Happy Christmas!

(And Yule, winter solstice, lunar new year, etc, there are a lot of holidays at this time of year but it happens to be Christmas today, so there we go.)

Anyway, it always struck me as funny how Beleg showed up with supplies that one winter like Saint Nicholas himself except bringing gifts to the kids on the naughty list. Couldn't believe I hadn't done a comic relating to that yet.

Transcription:

[Santa:] "Ah, well, I got here first. Tough luck, sorry, man. But hey, I do have some job openings for elves!" [Andróg:] "What's this black stuff he gave to all of us?"

[averagecontentenjoyer121]

Random shower thought:

Hypnos, from Greek mythology, is kinda like Santa Claus but instead of being presents to nice kids he brings sleep to people

And Thantos, his brother, is like Krampus, if instead of kidnapping naughty kids he took those whose time was up.

[ex35life]

Artemis and her doggies. Stay tuned for her twin brother coming soon!

[artbyanca]

Hephaestus at work.

[zedif-y]

"eye contact is necessary and polite" "avoiding eye contact is rude" why do u want my eyes on u so bad

[babygirl-olympics]

Babygirl Olympics pt. 2!

[protoslacker]

Over time this shamanic archetype changed and it is said that with the travel of Druids this tradition spread to Great Britain. Then through cultural exchange, it was combined with Germanic and Nordic myths that related adventures such as those of Wotan (Germanic god), Odin (his Nordic counterpart) and other gods, who when traveling during the night of the winter solstice, were chased by demons in a sleigh pulled by an eight-legged horse. It was said that a trail of red and white blood fell from the sleigh and that the horses frothed white foam to the ground, where the amanita mushrooms would appear the following year.

Giuliana Furci in the Fungi Foundation Blog (2020. The Influence of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms on Christmas

The story of Santa Claus is not the creation of Coca-Cola, nor Saint Nicholas or a children’s story, it exists because of a small living being with great powers: the Amanita muscaria mushroom.

[number1spongebobfan]

Am I the ONLY adult who still believes in Santa Claus?

[arleniansdoodles]

What enemies and allies will Atreus and Calliope make?

Both are the Roman gods! XDD The enemies would come from the Underworld, since Atreus "stole" Calliope in their eyes, and they want her returned because that's where she belongs, having already died. Hence why Atreus is trying to get her to Midgard; it's way out of Roman territory, so the Roman pantheon likely wouldn't be able to do anything there.

I also thought it'd be nice if some Roman gods were just naturally kind to Atreus and Calliope, just as a contrast to Kratos' experience with the Greek gods. But in other cases, it could also be that those Romans are familiar with legends of the Ghost of Sparta, and they don't want Kratos destroying Rome because his kids got in trouble lmaoo

[wednesdaythesecond]

i love how Gerard wrote a christmas comic where poor kids don't get presents but santa exists and that's because santa is funded by rich parents who don't want to have to think about what to get their kids for christmas.

[baby-xemnas]

law talking to cora like hes jesus is incredible

[kraniumet]

"the malm whale closed because people had sex in it" misinformation and fake news. of course people had sex in the whale. whatever. it has corpse smell and is an antique.

[phaedo]

oh yeah the important note about my family and santa is that if you say that if you tell your kids about santa you're basically lying to them my mom will say "i technically never lied to you because i never told you about santa, you just assumed"