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Jim Staley | – Passion Points – "Santa Claus is the Norse god Odin"
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Jim Staley | – Passion Points – "Santa Claus is the Norse god Odin"
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Pissing on the tradition of Santa Claus is silly.
Attention pseudo-intellectual hipster-bearded internet pastor – your research is tripe and you speak with the insane confidence of a flat-earther. On Christmas Eve all children will be excited about Santa Claus and none of them will give a fuck about Jesus. Not a one. Think about that on Christmas Day. May your excess delusion give you comfort during your life of futility.
Santa is the god of: Life, death, war, wisdom, divination and magic.
Sources for this? Yes there are internet blogs a plenty affirming this but I have yet to see actual ancient sources.
You're missing the works of Nicholas in this story. Just like one side only tells only partial truth, this side of the story is also only telling partial truth.
Thank you to all the people out there holding up the Old Ways. And Happy Yule!!
As a Heathen who follows the Aesir I can say most of this is historically accurate….nice to see some Christian's admit it lol
Don't forget that Odin rides on yule,on the event called the wild hunt to gather the damned spirits and bring them to Valhalla for he is also known as the lord of hosts,aka god of hospitality.
Nice to see a Christian speak some truth.
Good job.
LOL except that saturnalia was a roman tradition where they worshipped saturn, and Odin was a norse deity.
Hallo one thing in the Netherlands the birth of sinterklaas is on 5 December on does day's of time
Hail to you truthseeker.
Sinterklaas/Wodan and Black Pete/Hel are both Saturn/Death and Pluto/Hades.
Yeah, no. There's no connection between Odin and santa. Santa doesn't give gifts except to start wars
Odin doesn't mean "inspired one" it means "the mad one". It's ambiguous whether this means mad as in angry crazy or both.
Seriously, why would you lie about that? It should make your point better.
There were no Norse pagans in 16th century Holland, they were Christians. Most of them wouldn't even know much about Odin at that time.
The fir tree isn't Sacred to Odin. He doesn't have a particular sacred tree, but if any it would be the yew.
Sinterklaas is just a kiddy way to say saint nicholas. A notable figure in Christian history.
Odin has never been associated with red, he wears blue or spotted coats.
Having a beard is not an important note. It's like saying he has two hands.
Odin doesn't have a white beard anyway, his beard is always called grey in every single story about him.
Having a crosier is not a noteworthy thing. It's like saying it's an important detail that the driver has keys to his car. Everyone with a car has keys to it.
Odin is always shown as having only a single eye. Having Odin have 2 eyes is like making ba'al a servant God. It literally wouldn't be him anymore
This is false, Jackson Crawford explains it well.
This is just silly. Dr. Jackson Crawford, an old Norse specialist, made a Youtube video refuting this ridiculous notion.
For a debunk/correction of this please refer to Jackson Crawford's (a ACTUAL scholar/academic specializing in Old Norse studies) video.
Jackson Crawford SQUAD GO!
Wrong !!!
Odin's 8-legged horse was named Sleipnir. Sounds a lot like SLEIGH to me! SLEIPNIR…. SLEIGH!!! Also Donner and Biltzen sound like Germanic words for Thunder and Lightning!