Santa Claus Myth

[ralis]

Siberian shamans harvested Amanita muscaria dried the harvest and gave the mushrooms to tribal members as gifts/medicine. Consumption of is guaranteed to give wild hallucinations of flying reindeer and Rudolph with his red nose. Not to forget that Santa Claus is dressed in red and white. 

 

[old3bob]

 

Saint Nicholas of Myra^[a] (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343),^[3][4] also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor (Greek: Μύρα; modern-day Demre, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire.^[7][8] Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker.^[c] Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, unmarried people, and students in various cities and countries around Europe. His reputation evolved among the pious, as was common for early Christian saints, and his legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the traditional model of Santa Claus ("Saint Nick") through Sinterklaas.

Very little is known about the historical Saint Nicholas. The earliest accounts of his life were written centuries after his death and contain many legendary elaborations. He is said to have been born in the Greek seaport of Patara, Lycia in Asia Minor to wealthy Christian parents.^[9] In one of the earliest attested and most famous incidents from his life, he is said to have rescued three girls from being forced into prostitution by dropping a sack of gold coins through the window of their house each night for three nights so their father could pay a dowry for each of them. Other early stories tell of him calming a storm at sea, saving three innocent soldiers from wrongful execution, and chopping down a tree possessed by a demon. In his youth, he is said to have made a pilgrimage to Egypt and Palestine. Shortly after his return, he became Bishop of Myra. He was later cast into prison during the persecution of Diocletian, but was released after the accession of Constantine. An early list makes him an attendee at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, but he is never mentioned in any writings by people who were actually at the council. Late, unsubstantiated legends claim that he was temporarily defrocked and imprisoned during the council for slapping the heretic Arius. Another famous late legend tells how he resurrected three children, who had been murdered and pickled in brine by a butcher planning to sell them as pork during a famine.

Fewer than 200 years after Nicholas's death, the St. Nicholas Church was built in Myra under the orders of Theodosius II over the site of the church where he had served as bishop, and his remains were moved to a sarcophagus in that church. In 1087, while the Greek Christian inhabitants of the region were subjugated by the newly arrived Muslim Seljuk Turks, and soon after their church was declared to be in schism by the Catholic church, a group of merchants from the Italian city of Bari removed the major bones of Nicholas's skeleton from his sarcophagus in the church without authorization and brought them to their hometown, where they are now enshrined in the Basilica di San Nicola. The remaining bone fragments from the sarcophagus were later removed by Venetian sailors and taken to Venice during the First Crusade. 

 

 

[Nungali]

5 hours ago, ralis said:

Siberian shamans harvested Amanita muscaria dried the harvest and gave the mushrooms to tribal members as gifts/medicine. Consumption of is guaranteed to give wild hallucinations of flying reindeer and Rudolph with his red nose. Not to forget that Santa Claus is dressed in red and white. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/mystery-of-why-magic-mushrooms-go-blue-solved/4010870.article

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ralis]

"One pill makes you larger"....

 

 

[natural]

17 hours ago, ralis said:

"One pill makes you larger"....

 

 

 

Oh my.

How many men have bought into that farce.

[ralis]

1 hour ago, natural said:

 

Oh my.

How many men have bought into that farce.

 

Here are the lyrics. I saw them in Philadelphia way back in the summer of 1972.

 

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go

And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low.
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know.
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head"

 

[Nungali]

Ohhh Man !

 

We need Grace    .... go baby !

 

 

 

[ralis]

1 minute ago, Nungali said:

Ohhh Man !

 

We need Grace    .... go baby !

 

 

 

 

She is an amazing artist! We had lot's of fun at their show!

[Apech]

If it’s a myth how the hell does he deliver all those presents every year?  With mushrooms?  Fools.

[ralis]

14 hours ago, Apech said:

If it’s a myth how the hell does he deliver all those presents every year?  With mushrooms?  Fools.

 

Mushrooms allow one to see all the presents that Santa is delivering and flying reindeer make it much more fun! 

[Nungali]

18 hours ago, Apech said:

If it’s a myth how the hell does he deliver all those presents every year?  With mushrooms?  Fools.

 

I have never had my presents delivered with mushrooms . The presents get delivered with no side orders  and the mushrooms come delivered with toast .

[Nungali]

[ralis]

Well written article by Thom Hartmann on shamanism, Amanita muscaria and Santa Claus. 

 

https://www.rawstory.com/the-hidden-shamanic-history-of-santa-claus/

[old3bob]

!on a varied note the tooth fairy used to leave a quarter under my pillow in exchange for a tooth, now I have to leave the dentist a check for a thousand bucks for a one hour root canal...now that is inflation!!  (and I konw he wouldn't give me 2 cents for the tooth if it was pulled)  Btw, and off topic  but I've never seen a woman dentist, (only assistants) what gives? And since women tend to have smaller hands it seems they would cause less pain to a client compared to some of these guys stuffing their big paws into the limited space in our mouths! 

Edited December 27, 2021 by old3bob