12-13-2013, 05:32 AM
DeusxMac wrote:
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Santa is primarily Icelandic, Siberian and Turkish by way of the Dutch with a little touch of good old 20th century American Coca Cola advertising. I'd give her that one. He might be tan, but he's not black. That's Zwarte Piet or the Krampus. Easy mistake to make.
Jesus, if he existed, was probably a little semitic guy. Otherwise, I'd expect there to be a few passages in the bible mentioning how weird he looked and how easily he got sunburn.
I know about the... the Russian Babushka
Doesn't Babushka just mean grandmother?
It does, and there is a Russian Christmas tradition for children around that:
"In Russia, it is believed that an elderly woman named Babouschka purposely gave the wise men wrong directions to Bethlehem so that they couldn't find Jesus. Later, she felt remorseful, but could not find the men to undo the damage. To this day, on January 5, Babouschka visits Russian children leaving gifts at their bedsides in the hope that one of them is the baby Jesus and she will be forgiven."