SANTA CLAUS ORIGINS
- ParrisVstefanow
- Apr 2
- 5 min read
As Old Nick, Jesus and Robin are therefore variants of St Nicholas who was the Celtic Hearne, the Lord of the Forest
....... (Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva/Sidha), and Odin the blinded, (late composite version of Anu/Samael)
...... the Finnish shamanic Wanderer, who travelled on a Sled drawn by Reindeer (it is pertinent to remind oneself of the Pict-Sidhes at this point, and of Amanita Muscaria).
In the bleak of Midwinter which, as a season, could have magically represented the wasteland of the Grail, he would come down from on high (slip down the chimney pole [descend the magic tree] of the snow-drift covered, half hidden tepes) and leave gifts (fruit and food) for the occupants.
This in a sense, may symbolize the god giving succor to his beleaguered devotes, pilgrims on the journey of life, who were symbolically seeking guidance, sustenance and direction in the wasteland.
His teachings helping to keep them resolute in winter’s "dark night of the soul" and give them wisdom to continue the journey up the Tree.
The fruit traditionally given at Christmas symbolized the Sephirah and their wisdom, which both Odin/Samael/Lucifer and Jesus had obtained by hanging from a sacrificial Tree.
One is also reminded of Moses and the Israelites in the desert wasteland, and Moses’ brazen serpent held up on a "tree" or Tepes, a pole; as a symbol of healing.
In this connextion I have heard it said that the custom of hanging baubles from the Christmas Tree was symbolic of the semen of the God who was represented by that tree.
It is conceivable, but more probable is the idea that the baubles represent the sephira, and the tree in its esoteric sense, is a Goddess.
Here one is further reminded of the figure of Samael as the serpent entwined around Lilith; his Tree.
In connection to Moses’ serpent staff as a healing symbol, the serpent is again Samael; as a precursor to the Fisher King, who is healed by the Grail, ie the Woman;
....... who as the Cup, is also the Tree or Staff around which he, Samael, the Serpent fisher King, is entwined and healed.
One recollects the shaman’s journey back up the magical tree. In Runic, Tree is spelt Tir and is represented by an upturned spear like glyph reminiscent of the Tepes or dragon pole (Sarkany) found in Sidhe Mounds.
Tir Na n-og, the "Land of Youth", to see if the word Tir in Gaelic has a conceptual relationship with tree and house.
Mistakes have been made with regard to the academic understanding of the origins of Gaelic ideas and words and the "Land of Youth" is therefore associated with the "Tree of Ogmios" - Tir Na n-Og.
Oghma is a Danaan God who, like Odin, is credited with discovering a magical script associated with the otherworid. in Odin’s case this was Runic and was attained through death on the Tree Yggdrasil.
In Oghma’s case the script he obtained has been called the language of the trees. Formulated in c 400 AD as a written script based on Latin, it originated with continental Druids as a system of magical symbols in about 500 BC.
Of further interest is the connection between the words Og and Och, as in Och Aye and Occitan, the language of Provence, distinguished by its use of the word Och for yes, in place of Oui in the French.
Og or Och - yes - are affirmatives or assertives, these words being the primary foundation of the positive state of mind and the will underlying all magic, the state of mind that allows and accepts; and thereby learns wisdom.
Och is the Oath positively asserted, and for the druids the Oath was truth. Allowing a synthesis between these concepts we might further discover a Tree of Youth or Tree of Life and a Land of Youth attained by ascending that Tree.
Perhaps we might also discover that Tia Mat or Tir Mater, is the Mother Tree or tree mother, she who was the original womb of the fairy race and the first Lady of the Forest, the first grail princess who was both the tree and the fountain of magical wisdom - Ogham;
....... and the "Source" or "Land" of Eternal Youth - Tir Na n-og. Perhaps also, ascending the Tree could be seen as a sacrifice of selt as returning to the Mother, to the womb of the Otherworld - Tir Na n-og - and thus to death, the ultimate truth. Nothing.
This sacrifice, death on a "Tree", is symbolic of the total submission to the female which is found in courtly love. She is the Tree, as we have seen in other essays, and as such is the implement by which the Priest King is both "destroyed", and thus healed.
The total submission however, is ultimately to the Nix or nothingness, which her nature affords and her soul reflects. She is the Egyptian Nuit, the boundless abyss of infinite space beyond time.
Her fruits sustain and nurture the Cernunnos or Odin, the Priest-King-Magician who, in turn nurtures and sustains his supplicants and followers. Similarly Jesus (Moses’ Brazen Serpent) descended from his Rood Tree and thus "resurrected", he gave gifts of the fruits of its (Her or Death’s) wisdom when in transcendence, he preached to his disciples.
In these tales, where Jesus, Robin and Odin, or Hearne, as the original Santa Claus, gave gifts to the poor and needy, the essential elements of Magician-Priest-Kingship are manifest.
It was the King’s duty to sustain and guide the people. He could only do this through sacrificing his ego to the Nix and, uniting with it, perceive the transcendent wisdom.
He could only do that by "hanging from a tree", by "riding Epona or Slepnir to the Otherworld" and thus a king could only be a king if he had a queen.
Father Christmas is Merlin et al after all and the dyslexic devil worshipper who "sold his soul to Santa" wasn’t so daft, as it happens.
In earlier depictions he also represents Old Father Time, Saturn or Chronos, the father of the Titans. In this guise he is Iapetus or Anu.
Merlin and Odin were the inspiration for Tolkein’s wizard Gandalf or Gand-Aelf, meaning "Grey Elf Sorcerer" in Norse.
Odin wore a dark blue hood (Robin) and a grey mantle. Hence J.R.R’s Gandalf the Grey; and Od-in or Hood-en. Robin or Robert means Bright Fame which appears to be linked to Lucifer, more or less.
Here we return to the concept of the Wild Hunt. Chronos ate his kin (his children). Hearne (Oberon/ Alberich) or Odin was Master of the Wild Hunt for elf women (also his kin) whom he also "ate".
In France, one name for the Devil; the God of the Witches, was Albirin which obviously is Oberon, king of Elves.
The French had a separate, Frankish, Robin Hood and Maid Marian (see J.Hunt) who were probably derived from a common early Gallic cultic root.
It is from this tradition, one might assert, that Robert III inherited his role as the Robin Hood-en, or Odin, The Hooded Wanderer.
One can see Raymond and Melusine echoed in Robin and Marian even though the latter fit variously the Jesus & Magdalene, Arthur & Guinevere cycle more easily.
Robin and Arthur have a number of identical Celtic adventures which don’t apply to Raymond, but five elements seem to bind their cycles together.
1) Raymond kills Aymeri, Mordred kills Arthur. (Chronos cycle)
2) Guinevere deserts Arthur, Melusine deserts Raymond. (Lohengrin cycle)
3) Jesus and Robin are both betrayed and killed. (Priest King cycle)
4) Robin and Arthur are betrayed by women (The Abbess and Morgana)
5) Melusine betrays and also kills her father.
It is arguable that these tales were enshrined in Druidic lore in the first place, because in reality they happened all too often, at least often enough, perhaps, for the Druids to recognize that these events followed archetypal and repetitive, psychologically ingrained patterns, like treadmills, some of which needed addressing and avoiding, for the good of the kingdom and the people.
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