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Seeing as it's Super Saturnday, a 9/11 date (October 19th, or 10/19, or 119 in numerlogical reduction), and there are 73 days left in the year (73 represents the Hexagram/Star/expanded cube/hexagon of Saturn), here's some early festive cheer for y'all :v IXXI -O-

"Who is this old guy with a white beard living in the North Pole? Who imparts gifts once a year riding in a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer? How did this belief transpire? Whence came the notion of flying reindeer? And dwarfs who seem to have no other purpose then to help make the gifts and toys. And why the North Pole? And why are gods such as Krishna, Mithra and Jesus said to have been born on the same day as this annual gift giving?

The name Santa Claus is derived from Nicholas of Myra who was a very popular bishop living in what is now Turkey during the time of the Roman Emperor Diocletian A.D. 245-313. Which in the correct timetable means he died a little over 700 years ago.
Nicholas was persecuted and even tortured for his Christian beliefs and eventually thrown in jail. When Constantine converted to the Christian faith he released the imprisoned Christians.

After his death he was honored by the Greeks and Romans at an annual feast on December 6. On the Eve of this feast day, December 5, they would give gifts secretly to each other because Nicholas secretly bestowed the dowry of 3 daughters of a poor citizen. He did so in order that they could obtain a decent marriage partner and not be given over to a house of prostitution by the father.

When Christian Catholicism spread North the Dutch started to celebrate the event. The Dutch pronunciation of Saint Nicholas is Sinter Klaas. When the Dutch emigrated to New Amsterdam which is now New York City the tradition was introduced to America and the English version of Sinter Klaas became Santa Claus.