Saturnalian Santa

Dec 24, 2017 18:32

OK, so see the icon I am using for this post? I made it probably more than ten years ago now from this image, which I had found while Googling for hoary, pagan-looking Victorian Santas:


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saturn, pictures, saturnalia, yuletide, christmas, syncretism, santa claus

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steepholm December 24 2017, 19:48:54 UTC
That is pretty awesome - and a very different figure from the Coca-Cola purveyor of later times.

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strange_complex December 24 2017, 20:10:08 UTC
Yes, indeed - a much wilder beast! I'm pretty sure this one views Coke only as a mixer, and even then only in circumstances of desperation.

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