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| Nov 27, 2023 at 2:16 | comment | added | ReinstateMonica3167040 | Your answer goes well with the quantum interpretation of Santa (worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/134486), as you explain why Santa can bend the universe's laws. | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 20:51 | comment | added | Rozwel | Jim Butcher's Dresden Files implies that this is the case. That Santa is a member of the wild fey and wears other guises during other parts of the year. Including riding with the wild hunt on all hallows eve. (It has been a few years since I read it, but I am thinking there was a scene that implied he was one of the faces of Odin in there somewhere as well.) | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 17:24 | comment | added | JDługosz | Re morphing: if he were a properly-beleived god, then he would not be all forms based on context. Rather, different factions would be killing each other and insisting that their form was the one true narrative. As for Diskworld, Hogfather is indeed a Disk novel and a rather good movie. | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 17:19 | comment | added | JDługosz | It's been pointed out how Santa is very much like a conventional diety. He is at least on par with Hercules or other demigods. In fact, he evolved from a Catholic saint. Why otherwise religious people stopped beleiving in him is the real mystery. Talking snakes, OK; flying reindeer, not. A newer religion, still in the Abrahamic family, features a flying horse. The ancient greeks had a flying horse. Maybe he's just too nice to make a god, and doesn't demand blood and insist that followers spread the word. (We do leave offerings (milk and cookies) not because we must but to be nice. | |
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| Apr 3, 2015 at 12:11 | history | answered | Mints97 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |