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Santa or not Santa? Empty Santa or not Santa?

Post by Melissa, manager Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:31 pm

According to this article on the true origins of Christmas, Santa, or St. Nick, was selected to replace the Goddess Pasqua Epiphania as the one who placed goodies into the stockings of children. Over time, St. Nick's complete persona developed into the form we today know as Santa Claus. Does this change your perceptions of how you see Santa or whether you think that children should be taught that Santa is an invention that has evolved over time?

The Origin of Santa Claus



a.       Nicholas was born in Parara, Turkey in 270 CE and later became Bishop of Myra.  He died in 345 CE on December 6th.  He was only named a saint in the 19th century.



b.      Nicholas was among the most senior bishops who convened the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE and created the New Testament.  The text they produced portrayed Jews as “the children of the devil”[11] who sentenced Jesus to death.



c.       In 1087, a group of sailors who idolized Nicholas moved his bones from Turkey to a sanctuary in Bari, Italy.  There Nicholas supplanted a female boon-giving deity called The Grandmother, or Pasqua Epiphania, who used to fill the children's stockings with her gifts.  The Grandmother was ousted from her shrine at Bari, which became the center of the Nicholas cult.  Members of this group gave each other gifts during a pageant they conducted annually on the anniversary of Nicholas’ death, December 6.



d.      The Nicholas cult spread north until it was adopted by German and Celtic pagans.  These groups worshipped a pantheon led by Woden –their chief god and the father of Thor, Balder, and Tiw.  Woden had a long, white beard and rode a horse through the heavens one evening each Autumn.  When Nicholas merged with Woden, he shed his Mediterranean appearance, grew a beard, mounted a flying horse, rescheduled his flight for December, and donned heavy winter clothing.



e.       In a bid for pagan adherents in Northern Europe, the Catholic Church adopted the Nicholas cult and taught that he did (and they should) distribute gifts on December 25th instead of December 6th.

To read the entire article click here:

http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm
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