We used to be more in touch with nature than we are now, supposedly. This may be myth itself – after all, not many, if any, civilizations we’ve set up on this planet have actually been sustainable, and I would hope that sustainability is at least a basic principle of being in touch with nature, but, that aside, at some point homo sapiens really did have goddess religions and earth mother rituals, and at some point these were all crushed and killed and forgotten, supplanted by all the patriarchal abrahamic cults and priests. So, why? We still sort of think that mother knows best, don’t we? But we don’t really act on it, or follow it through. Let’s try this – Santa Claus as the Anti-Goddess – patriarchy reacts to the power of the feminine in magic and spirit – SC is a technology of reward, with little to no ritual required, and minimal sacrifice. How easy it is to admire the giver, with the instant gift, rather than acknowledge the nurturer, whose toil was constant and overarching rather than sudden and surprising.
Was following and worshipping a goddess too much hard damn work with no quick reward? Was Santa Claus an invention of the patriarchal priests to satisfy the grasshopper in all of us?
Tunes to Hum Along With 