saint nick some type of norse god?
i never heard that part of the story
shareHe was a Norse berserker from Minnesota!
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he is black man according to retard american hahahahahah!!
is see this every year from retard american on social retard media. claiming he black hahahahahah!!!
you american so obsess with race you cant even celebrate festive feel good time without race obsess.
liberaltard american should be deported to bottom of atlanic ocean, and replace with arab!
Santa Claus is another character from pagan religions and mythology (this time Norse), that was "christianized" to make the religion more palpable to the newly assimilated peoples. Like many South American gods have become a variation of Mary or some other saint.
shareNone of this is even close to accurate.
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I just googled this article and it basically says the same thing I did
https://historydaily.org/odin-and-santa/5
I was born into orthodox christianity. During the conversion of the Slavic peoples, many of their gods were rebranded as saints, meaning some of the saints were given the characteristics of the old gods.
one of the very first lines is that St. Nick is Turkish. The mythology of Santa came later, adapting from nordic cultures, but that was after he'd been established.
shareSt Nicholas was Turkish and this is the perfect example of what I was saying - giving old god's traits to an existing saint.
sharest nick was greek man.
st nick live in asia minor in 4 century ad. at this time there was no arabs in this region. he was not arab turk.
st nick did not live in north poles or fly on sleigh of camels.
He was Turkish in the today's sense. Then, it was still the Roman Empire.
shareincorrect. no arab in asia minor in 4th century! arab migrate into that region several century after saint nick live! saint nick no arab turk hahahahahah.
shareI think that the disconnect comes from your lack of understanding the English language. When we say "st. Nick was Turkish", we speak in terms of contemporary geography, meaning he lived in what is now Turkey. We are all aware that, in the 4th century, it was the Eastern Roman Empire.
shareyes but saying he turk implys he arab. st nick not be arab.
i see this every christmas on socials medias from many retard. they say santa is turk arab hahahahahha. i guess in 10th century america everyone be europeans!!
Turks are not Arabs though.
shareI have a feeling you've never seen a Turkish person before. What you said is like saying "all Mexicans are brown".
shareThat was just for the movie. The original St. Nick was of Mediterranean decent.
sharethe santa you western peoples know today come from scandinavias and englands. his character born from there cultures.
santa fly on sleigh of reindeer and live in north poles snow. he do not live in desert sand and fly on sleigh of camels.
If you're talking reality instead of just the movie, Santa Claus is an amalgamation of Norse tradition (e.g. ODIN flying through the sky during Yule leading the Wild Hunt) and Saint Nicholas, an actual person in history, where the gift-giving component originates.
Then Christians coopted it and it evolved from there.
The movie suggests he was a Norse warrior that somehow later became Santa Claus, possibly one of several in a line of them. But they barely touched on this in the film so all we can do is speculate. Maybe more in-universe information will be revealed in a sequel.
https://explorethearchive.com/where-did-santa-claus-originate-from
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There is an interesting documentary on origins of Christmas on YouTube.
If anyone is interested hereis the link:
https://youtu.be/Ots9y_xcaX8
Unless I totally missed something, I was disappointed we didn't see how he went from viking dude to Santa.
shareI like it when movies don't spell everything out. But I suspect they had more flashbacks that got cut to keep the running time under 2 hours.
Seems like he was a bloodthirsty Viking who reformed somewhere along the line and vowed to do good. Maybe he made a deal with God (while running up that hill), to save himself in some dangerous situation, or to help him save his wife. Or maybe he found Christianity and took it as a personal quest to make up for past misdeeds. Or maybe he got drafted by the previous Santa Claus, who saw the good in him and challenged him to do better.