'used to call Miss Cleo but I ain't called her in a while..'
Whew! Livejournal! Did you forget me? I'm not sure I can make it as a
regular for livejournal but I will tell you what's been going on. I was
living downtown from May up until the end of October but then decided
it would be best to move back in at my mom and bro's for a while so
that's where I am now. I've been taking a film editing course which
will be over on November 28th, and am scheduled to work assisting an
old high school friend, Goh Iromoto who works as an assistant editor at
School Media, doing some editing work for him. I also currently am
doing some dj'ing ..1, because I love playing music and mixing it
up and 2, as a source of income so that I will be free from paying
Matt, my old landlord/friend. I will update you more in depth as the
time comes!!
Thanks to mistermoot 's 'SantaClausParade2005(UberUberMix)' which he put together (IT's surreal, IT's silly, IT's comic, IT's joyful and a highly motivational track) it inspired me to research the origins of Santa online.
This was an interesting 'possible parallel' to the Santa Claus origin from Wikipedia.org that I came across:
American mycologist Jonathan Ott suggests in his book Pharmacotheon (ISBN 0961423498) that many of the modern features attributed to Santa Claus may somehow be derived from those of the Kamchatkan or Siberian shaman. Apparently, during the midwinter festival (holiday season) in Siberia (near the north pole), the shaman would enter a yurt (home) through the shangrak (chimney), bringing with him a sack of fly agaric mushrooms (presents) to give to the inhabitants. This type of mushroom is brightly colored red and white, like Santa Claus, though the relevance of this is questionable as the standardised red and white Santa dates from no earlier than 1920. The mushrooms were often hung (to dry) in front of the fireplace, much like the stockings of modern-day Christmas. Furthermore, the mushrooms were associated with reindeer who were known to eat them and become intoxicated. Reindeer are also associated with the shaman, and like Santa Claus, many people believed that the shaman could fly. (For more information, see this excerpt from The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey by Roger Highfield at http://www.christmaspast.info/stories/realstory/hallucinogenic.html )
Thanks to mistermoot 's 'SantaClausParade2005(UberUberMix)' which he put together (IT's surreal, IT's silly, IT's comic, IT's joyful and a highly motivational track) it inspired me to research the origins of Santa online.
This was an interesting 'possible parallel' to the Santa Claus origin from Wikipedia.org that I came across:
American mycologist Jonathan Ott suggests in his book Pharmacotheon (ISBN 0961423498) that many of the modern features attributed to Santa Claus may somehow be derived from those of the Kamchatkan or Siberian shaman. Apparently, during the midwinter festival (holiday season) in Siberia (near the north pole), the shaman would enter a yurt (home) through the shangrak (chimney), bringing with him a sack of fly agaric mushrooms (presents) to give to the inhabitants. This type of mushroom is brightly colored red and white, like Santa Claus, though the relevance of this is questionable as the standardised red and white Santa dates from no earlier than 1920. The mushrooms were often hung (to dry) in front of the fireplace, much like the stockings of modern-day Christmas. Furthermore, the mushrooms were associated with reindeer who were known to eat them and become intoxicated. Reindeer are also associated with the shaman, and like Santa Claus, many people believed that the shaman could fly. (For more information, see this excerpt from The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey by Roger Highfield at http://www.christmaspast.info/stories/realstory/hallucinogenic.html )