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![]() In the marketplace of religions Jesus had to compete with pagan gods who did miraculous stuff but that doesn’t mean Jesus was a carbon-copy of Horus, Osiris, Dionysus, Tammuz, or any other god. I think there are several pagan elements in the birth stories of Jesus: the star over Bethlehem, the virgin birth, the angels talking to the shepherds. No religion exists in a vacuum and Christianity is no exception to that. ![]() It is possible that the Sami people of Northern Europe contributed in some way to the Santa Claus myth (and they do have shamans), but they didn’t invent Santa. Nick rode a horse (most likely borrowed from the Norse god Odin!). This argument is even more nonsensical because reindeer weren’t introduced into the Santa mythos until the Nineteenth Century. ![]() Since reindeer exist in Siberia, shamans of that area are also credited with introducing reindeer to Santa’s sleigh. ![]()
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