Christmas blogging starts here at MY(P)WHAE--I've heard rumors to that effect, anyway. Such an amazing holiday, really, and quite old--about 1700 years or so. And it's presently the biggest shindig on the planet, holiday-wise, with at least two billion people observing it. Christmas has come a long way. Humans dig it.
Each "season," I like to point out that Santa Claus, as many of us already know, is quite a composite figure--part Father Christmas, part Saint Nicholas, part Norse god Thor (bright red suit, white beard, tendency to travel down chimneys), part gift-bearing Christ Child (aka, Christkind/l, aka Kris Kringle), and who knows who else? Well, part Edmund Gwenn, too. The cool thing about mythology is how it all glops together like a ball of Play-Doh, with no attempt to logically explain all the (at times) conflicting details. Oh, and Santa's reindeer, far as I know, were originally goats. None of whom had red-lightbulb noses.
Anyway, hope you enjoy my offerings this time around.
Lee
4 comments:
Happy Christmas to you, Lee! Looking forward to it!
Can't wait.
Thanks Lee!
I always picture Santa as being as he was depicted in the Haddon Sundblom Coca-Cola ads. Edmund Gwenn struck the young me as being inauthentic.
Ho ho ho!
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