Here Comes Santa Claus, Here Comes Santa Claus…
Dec 14th, 2008 by paganparentsote
Yule is a magical time of year at the PPOTE houshold and this episode Foxfire and Arrowind try to share some of that magical feeling. Fox attempts his first on purpose channeling of the spirit of Santa Claus and then he and Arrowind discuss this mythic figure. Covering some of their feelings and associations with Santa they try to convey both theirs and the kids special relationship with him and what he has come to represent.
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Another great show keep them coming.
drop us a line at themagicalearth@gmail.com so we can work out a promo swap.
Cliff
first of all, my cat always gets confused when he hears the bells chime at the beginning of each podcast.
I loved this podcast. I have been getting really amused lately with the idea of what I’m going to tell my children, one day, about Santa. Living in America, with Christian parents, a Jewish mother (me) and a Freethinker father (the most likely father of my children) makes the concept of raising children in a single religion home pretty impracticable. But I don’t want to take Santa away from my kids if all their friends get to celebrate Santa, and let’s face it, my entire family are going to encourage Santa on them, so why should I deny them this. Yet at the same time, I’m too smart to make us silly excuses about what all these Yule celebrations have to do with Christmas. So how do I explain to my kids that St. Nick is one guy who comes and fills shoes with candy on his feast day on the 6th, and Santa is actually Father Christmas, or the Holly King, and you can celebrate that on Yule or Christmas, and in some countries there’s an elf that comes, and some its the Three Kings and they come on the Equinox, and some its a Witch ::pant pant::
Anyhow, this episode amused me, enlightened me, and gave me a neat insight to what ‘new age’ parents do when discussing such things with their kids.
Also, Christ is actually Greek for the Hebrew Moshiach(Messiah), which means ‘one who is annointed’. It would refer to a king, but king in Hebrew would actually be ‘melech’. Your argument is perfectly safe, I just had to correct the linguistics.