European Father Christmas isn’t the only inspiration for our Santa Claus…shroomin’ shamans from Siberia (and Alaska) seem to have brought the whole thing together for us here in the Americas.
“And like so many other fantastical tales, it all originated with some really intense ‘shrooms. On the night of the winter solstice, a Koryak shaman would gather several hallucinogenic mushrooms called amanita muscaria, or fly agaric in English, and them to launch himself into a spiritual journey to the tree of life (a large pine), which lived by the North Star and held the answer to all the village’s problems from the previous year.”
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